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> [The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/the-first-real-unhappiness-i-remember-to-have-felt-was-when-some-one/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

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## More by Lucy Larcom

> [O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/o-mariner-soul-thy-quest-is-but-begun-there-are-new-worlds-forever-to/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/a-tattered-copy-of-johnson-s-large-dictionary-was-a-great-delight-to/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/we-were-not-meant-to-mask-ourselves-before-our-fellow-beings-but-to/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/the-peach-bud-glows-the-wild-bee-hums-and-wind-flowers-wave-in/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/i-don-t-own-an-inch-of-land-but-all-i-see-is-mine/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/if-the-world-seems-cold-to-you-kindle-fires-to-warm-it/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/i-never-thought-that-the-possession-of-money-would-make-me-feel-rich/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/whether-rich-or-poor-a-home-is-not-a-home-unless-the-roots-of-love/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before… They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/the-new-hampshire-girls-who-came-to-lowell-were-descendants-of-the/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/the-religion-of-our-fathers-overhung-us-children-like-the-shadow-of-a/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/these-blossoms-gathered-in-familiar-paths-with-dear-companions-now/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/the-curse-of-covetousness-is-that-it-destroys-manhood-by-substituting/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/rich-or-poor-every-child-comes-into-the-world-with-some-imperative/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/if-an-apple-blossom-or-a-ripe-apple-could-tell-its-own-story-it-would/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

> [There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/there-is-something-in-the-place-where-we-were-born-that-holds-us/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

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