Lucy Larcom

“Plant lilies, and lilies will bloom; Plant roses, and roses will grow.”

“I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had a reverence for freedom.”

“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”

“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.”

“The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.”

“Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.”

“God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but that we may make unveiled use of our own.”

“A 'good-enough' is the mortal enemy of the 'best'.”

“This is a beautiful world, and it is a privilege to live in it.”

“To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”

“There is a secret feeling in human nature which tells us that we are not to blame for not being able to achieve the impossible.”

“I know how it is to be a child, and I know that the world is a hard place for a child to grow up in.”