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“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.” quote by Lydia M. Child — Download Open image

“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”

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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us…

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as…

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our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings…

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I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak…

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To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy…

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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

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In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they…

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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the…

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There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement…

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