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> [O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/o-ye-whose-years-unfolding-fair-are-fresh-with-youth-and-free-from/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

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## More by Lydia Sigourney

> [Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/whatever-you-would-have-your-children-become-strive-to-exhibit-in/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/vigorous-exercise-will-often-fortify-a-feeble-constitution/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/figure-to-yourself-what-the-year-would-sustain-were-the-spring-taken/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/teachers-should-be-held-in-the-highest-honor-they-are-the-allies-of/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/the-strength-of-a-nation-especially-of-a-republican-nation-is-in-the/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/as-nothing-truly-valuable-can-be-attained-without-industry-so-there/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/praise-to-our-father-god-high-praise-in-solemn-lay-alike-for-what-his/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/pride-is-a-fruitful-source-of-uneasiness-it-keeps-the-mind-in/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [The soul of woman lives in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/the-soul-of-woman-lives-in-love/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/fear-is-the-white-lipp-d-sire-of-subterfuge-and-treachery/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/there-is-a-lore-simple-and-sure-that-asks-no-discipline-of-weary/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/a-disposition-to-dwell-on-the-bright-side-is-like-gold-to-its/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/as-a-dedicated-successful-writer-lydia-sigourney-violated-essential/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/youth-would-be-too-happy-might-it-add-to-its-own-beauty-and-felicity/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

> [In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-sigourney/in-early-childhood-you-may-lay-the-foundation-of-poverty-or-riches/)

[Lydia Sigourney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-sigourney/)

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