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1. "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." ~ Lucy Larcom
2. "If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it." ~ Lucy Larcom
3. "Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God." ~ Lucy Larcom
4. "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
5. "I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others." ~ Lucy Larcom
6. "The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character." ~ Lucy Larcom
7. "A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us." ~ Lucy Larcom
8. "If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed." ~ Lucy Larcom
9. "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
10. "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
11. "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
12. "A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature." ~ Lucy Larcom
13. "Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous." ~ Lucy Larcom
14. "Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality." ~ Lucy Larcom
15. "Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ." ~ Lucy Larcom
16. "A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior." ~ Lucy Larcom
17. "The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?" ~ Lucy Larcom
18. "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
19. "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
20. "I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea." ~ Lucy Larcom

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