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Lucy Larcom (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893) was an American teacher, poet, and author.

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The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

Christian, Earliest, Idea, Ideas, Mean

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

Certain, Make, Service To Others, Value, Vision

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Childhood, Earliest, Natural, Years

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

Curiosity, Gossip, Self, Thinking, Worse

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.

Beautiful, Dost, Light, Meet, Song, Thou

In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.

Ambition, Children, Girl, Grown, Mother, Wives

My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

Atmosphere, Everywhere, May, Poetry, Purchasable

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through.

Autumn, Guide, Red, Shine, Shining, Years

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Contact, Greater, Noble, Wake Up, Way

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

Come, Funny Birthday, Gone, Happy Birthday, Inspirational

O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.

Begun, Forever, Soul, Thy, Won, World

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Man, May, Men, Misanthrope, Nature

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Born, Heart, Heart Strings, Holds, Place

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Bird, Listen, May, Rain, Violets

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.

Expectations, Greatest, Learning, Life, Mistake, Mistakes

Those who plant trees plant hope.

Garden, Hope, Plant, Tree, Trees

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

Glory, Littles, Prophesy, Thou, Tree

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Garden, Hope, Nature, Plants, Tree

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.

Aim, Enthusiasm, Faithfulness, Privilege, Undertakes

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts Will meet the offering, of so little worth, Wanting the benison death has made divine.

Blossoms, Dear, Life, Pride, Wanting, Wise

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