Sarah Hale
Sarah Hale
Sarah Josepha Buell Halewas an American writer and an influential editor. She is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument...
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Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.
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In this age of innovation, perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.
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She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both are situations of trial