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“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
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“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
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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.”
― A New England Girlhood
― A New England Girlhood
“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.”
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“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.”
― A New England Girlhood
― A New England Girlhood
“Never drops an answer from those worlds unknown:
Yet no ray is shining for itself alone.”
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Yet no ray is shining for itself alone.”
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