Lydia Maria Francis Child Quotes

#1. The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#2. Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#3. Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.

Kiersten White

#4. Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#5. I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

Thomas Kinkade

#6. Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

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#8. American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic ... The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.

Dumas Malone

#9. We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!

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#10. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

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#11. If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Rafael Cruz

#12. Beer is a good family drink.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#13. If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

Hamid Karzai

#14. We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

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#15. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture

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#16. If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.

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#17. Flour boiled thoroughly in milk, so as to make quite a thick porridge, is good in cases of dysentery.

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#18. A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness. In

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#19. Graham had stared through the bars for about five seconds when Lecter opened his eyes and said, "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court." "I keep getting it for Christmas.

Thomas Harris

#20. I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

Bobby Bonilla

#21. Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run.

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#22. Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.

Cory Doctorow

#23. One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education.

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#24. Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go

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#25. Plantain leaves laid upon a wound are cooling and healing. Half

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#26. Varnishing Gilded Frames, 117

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#27. As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Richard Dawkins

#28. Steam-baths are excellent for severe colds, and for some disorders in the bowels.

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#29. I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

John Corey Whaley

#30. The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears. - Tribe Unknown

Erin O'Quinn

#31. The fact is, our girls have no home education.

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#32. An effort made for the happiness of other lifts us above.

Lydia Maria Francis Child