American - Poet | March 5, 1824 - April 17, 1893
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
AloneI AmThoughtSelfKindAlways
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.
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Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
WorkEnthusiasmLaborPrivilegeAim
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
HistoryWaterUniverseWriteExplain
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.
MusicMeThoughtsFlyEnoughHigh
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.
BeautyEyesLightBabyDieNever
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.
WorkNatureBeautyWaitHumanity
When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.
TimeSkyHappyMeBe HappyRose
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
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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.
WomenPlaceNothingFirstTwoBeing
I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.
LifeI AmHelp OthersMy LifeHelp
There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.
BornPlaceAlwaysSomethingUsWere
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