Lydia M. Child
Lydia M. Child
Lydia Maria Francis Child, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual dark sunshine
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.
change mean looks
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
happiness being-content
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
spiritual mistake mean
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
dark electric-power clouds
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.
father ears music-is
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
aging attainment grows
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
being-yourself nature class
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
spiritual strong fall
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.
jesus bravery political
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
blessed heart angel
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
reform defeat reformers
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
eye expression genius
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
death children people
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.