Lucy Larcom Quotes

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• Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a…
• God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with…
• It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most…
• Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,…
• No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer…
• One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to…
• Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest…
• Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a…
• 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,…
• The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas:…
• The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest…
• 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 within.…
• Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it…
• The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must…
• Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses…
• The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.
• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
• If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
• What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which…
• Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly…

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