"All who strive to live for something beyond……" — Lydia M. Child
"All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, andso much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure."
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Lydia M. Child
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42 Quotes by Lydia M. Child
Lydia M. Child has 42 quotes on this site.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in…
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an…
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to…
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does…
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure…
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But…
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Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap…
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will…
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he…
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the…
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and…
— George Stillman Hillard
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a…
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