Lydia Sigourney Quotes

• Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Inspiration, Parenting

  "Letters to mothers".

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• En la primera infancia puedes sentar las bases de la pobreza o de la riqueza, de la laboriosidad o de la ociosidad, del bien o del mal, por los hábitos con que educas a tus hijos. Enséñales entonces hábitos correctos, y su vida futura estará segura.

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  Children, Evil, Childhood

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• We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

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  Children, Speak, Educate

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.19

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• The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

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  Home, Intelligent, People

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to Young Ladies”, p.75

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• Los maestros deben ser tenidos en el más alto honor. Son los aliados de los legisladores; intervienen en la prevención del crimen; ayudan a regular la atmósfera, cuya acción y presión incesantes hacen que la sangre vital circule y regrese pura y saludable al corazón de la nación.

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  Inspiración, Educación, Profesor

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• Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

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  Humility, Pride, Evil

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• A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

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  Gratitude, Gold, Sides

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• Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

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  Gratitude, Cheer, Powerful

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• The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

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  Learning, Science, Order

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• The soul of woman lives in love.

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  Love, Soul

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• No dependas del mundo exterior para la alegría interior; Disfruta del lujo del pensamiento, Hazte amigo de ti mismo; No con la inquieta multitud, En busca de consuelo deambules Sino con un celo independiente Sé íntimo en casa.

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  Independent, Home, Self

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1860). “Gleanings”, p.208

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• There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

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  Happiness, Mixtures, Sin

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• Los hábitos, aunque en su comienzo sean como la filiforme línea de la araña, temblorosa a cada brisa, al final pueden resultar como eslabones de acero templado, que atan a un ser inmortal a la felicidad o a la desdicha eternas.

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  Spiders, Steel, Links

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• Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

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  Pride, Names, Prosperity

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Select poems”, p.141

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• As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

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  Time, Valuable, Industry

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

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  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.

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  Race, Names, Light

  Lydia Sigourney (2008). “Lydia Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.149, Broadview Press

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• The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

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  Madre, Estrellas, Hijos

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.206

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• Hay una sabiduría sencilla y segura, que no exige la disciplina de los años cansados: el lenguaje del alma, contado a través de los ojos.

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  Eye, Simple, Years

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1854). “The western home: and other poems”, p.185

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• Praise to our Father-God,
  High praise in solemn lay,
  Alike for what His hand hath given,
  And what it takes away.

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  God, Father, Hands

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1841). “Pocahontas, and Other Poems”, p.94

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• Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

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  Years, Perfection, Would Be

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• An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

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  Character, Delicacy, Appearance

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• Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

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  Regret, Tablets

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• As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

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  Country, Successful, Roles

  "Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut". Book by Melissa Ladd Teed, 1999.

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• Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

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  Exercise, Constitution, Vigorous

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