Lucy Larcom Quotes

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
• Those who plant trees plant hope.
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to…
• Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
• The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses...
• I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.
• We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of…
• Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit…
• Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
• The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from…
• The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
• Every true friend is a glimpse of God.
• To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have…
• A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
• A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
• I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.
• Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
• There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.
• Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
• Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at…

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