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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”

1. “In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”

— Lydia Sigourney

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.”

3. “Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “The soul of woman lives in love.”

4. “The soul of woman lives in love.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.”

6. “Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.”

7. “Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.”

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

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.”

11. “There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?”

12. “We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.”

13. “Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.”

14. “Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “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!”

15. “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!”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.”

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

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.”

17. “The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”

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

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.”

19. “An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.”

20. “Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.”

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Lydia Sigourney Quote: “There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years – the language of the soul, told through the eye.”

21. “There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years – the language of the soul, told through the eye.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.”

22. “Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.”

— Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney Quote: “Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.”

23. “Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.”

— Lydia Sigourney

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