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> [It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/it-is-right-noble-to-fight-with-wickedness-and-wrong-the-mistake-is/)

[Lydia M. Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-m-child/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/every-human-being-has-like-socrates-an-attendant-spirit-and-wise-are/)

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> [Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/happiness-consists-not-in-having-much-but-in-wanting-no-more-than-you/)

[Lydia M. Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-m-child/)

> [Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/home-that-blessed-word-which-opens-to-the-human-heart-the-most/)

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> [our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/our-republican-ideas-cannot-be-consistently-carried-out-while-women/)

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> [The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/the-eye-of-genius-has-always-a-plaintive-expression-and-its-natural/)

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> [I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/i-do-not-know-how-the-affair-at-canterbury-is-generally-considered/)

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> [To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/to-everything-there-is-a-bright-side-and-a-dark-side-and-i-hold-it-to/)

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> [It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/it-is-right-noble-to-fight-with-wickedness-and-wrong-the-mistake-is/)

[Lydia M. Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-m-child/)

> [Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/misfortune-is-never-mournful-to-the-soul-that-accepts-it-for-such-do/)

[Lydia M. Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-m-child/)

> [The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/the-boughs-of-no-two-trees-ever-have-the-same-arrangement-nature/)

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> [In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/in-the-first-place-the-government-ought-not-to-be-invested-with-power/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/that-a-majority-of-women-do-not-wish-for-any-important-change-in/)

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> [There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/there-was-a-time-when-all-these-things-would-have-passed-me-by-like/)

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> [That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/that-man-s-best-works-should-be-such-bungling-imitations-of-nature-s/)

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> [If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-m-child/if-we-really-believed-that-those-who-are-gone-from-us-were-as-truly/)

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