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Lucy Larcom Quotes

Lucy Larcom quotes

American Poet March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893

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... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. Lucy Larcom
Home-life, when one always stays at home, is necessarily narrowing. That is one reason why so many women are petty and unthoughtful of any except their own family's interests. We have hardly begun to live until we can take in the idea of the whole human family as the one to which we truly belong. Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom quote: "If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."
If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. Lucy Larcom
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. Lucy Larcom
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom quote: "He who plants a tree, plants a hope."
He who plants a tree, plants a hope. Lucy Larcom
We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom quote: "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. Lucy Larcom

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