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I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

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Thinking, Thank God, Reason

Letter to George W. Julian (April 08, 1865), in "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" by Eric Foner, 2011.

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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

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Exercise, Justice, Diversity

Message to Woman Suffrage Supporters, 1875.

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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 on an angel's wings.

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Blessed, Home, Heart

"Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

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Blow, Reality, Trumpets

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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

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Happiness, Making A Difference, Helping

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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. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

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Angel, Men, Clouds

"Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

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Spiritual, Strong, Fall

"Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 18, 1843.

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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 unreflecting slaves of custom.

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Reality, Wish, Important

Letter to the Advocates of Woman's Suffrage, 1870.

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Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

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Destiny, Battle, Doe

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the excess of all good things is mischievous.

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Excess, Good Things, Mischievous

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Genius hath electric power;
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower;
Its flash is still the same.

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Dark, Electric Power, Clouds

"Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage". Poem by Lydia Maria Child,

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Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

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Effort, Doctrine, Puddles

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All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

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Selfish, Failure, People

Letter to John Fraser, 1868.

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In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery.

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Color, Law, Long

"An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

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May, Truth Is, Appearance

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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 have no right to interfere with his concerns.

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Men, Long, Wife

"An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

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Heart, Race, Organization

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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 of it and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

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Party, Blue, Years

"An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

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Self, Law, Joy

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The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govern his actions.

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Education, Children, Giving

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It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

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Christian, Selfish, Government

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Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

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Art, Philosophy, Moving

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England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

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Freedom, Land, Water

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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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 of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

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Theatre, Amusement, Hours

"Letters from New York". Book by Lydia M. Child, 1843.

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

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Eye, Expression, Genius

"Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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Born: February 11, 1802
Died: October 20, 1880
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