Lucy Larcom Quotes

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• I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them…
• Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
• A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole…
• A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much…
• Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent,…
• Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its…
• From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in…
• I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound…
• If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the…
• Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal…
• To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was…
• When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper,…
• Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
• I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the…
• A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to…
• That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.
• Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to…

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