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• 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 to us in our earliest years.

  Lucy Larcom

  Years, Childhood, Natural

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• 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 the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

  Lucy Larcom

  Baby, Eye, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• 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 greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Memories, Writing

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Memorable, Land, Inches

  Lucy Larcom, “A Strip Of Blue”

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• 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 vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Childhood, Forever

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• 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, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Girlhood and Character". Book by Mary Eliza Moxcey, p. 27, 1916.

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• Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

  Lucy Larcom

  Army, Men, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Morning, Thinking, Poetry

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.

  Lucy Larcom

  Forever, Soul, World

  "Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary" edited by Daniel Dulany Addison, (Ch. 12 : Last Years), 1895.

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• I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.

  Lucy Larcom

  Money, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

  Lucy Larcom

  Children, Rich Or Poor, Individuality

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

  Lucy Larcom

  Poetry, Atmosphere, May

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• 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 of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Song, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Feet, Play, Parent

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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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 simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Simple, Thinking

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

  Lucy Larcom

  Memorial Day, Remembrance, Liberty

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.131

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• 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 at some close in-door employment.

  Lucy Larcom

  Doors, Solitude, Employment

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.8

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• That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

  Lucy Larcom

  Vision, Service To Others, Certain

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• 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 fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

  Lucy Larcom

  Friendship, Zest, Impossible

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• 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, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.

  Lucy Larcom

  Real, Clouds, Feelings

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• 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 times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

  Lucy Larcom

  Christian, Mean, Ideas

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• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
  With dear companions now passed out of sight,
  Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
  Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
  Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
  Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
  Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Wise, Pride

  "Poems". Book by Lucy Larcom, 1869.

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• I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

  Lucy Larcom

  Helping Others, Helping, Willing

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• Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life And Love, Cheerful, Inspired

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