Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.Lydia M. Child
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Lydia M. Child
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
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