Quotes by Lucy Larcom

Lucy Larcom

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Ifs

Water

Writing

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Friendship

Impossible

Zest

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.

Consciousness

Kind

Self

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

May

Men

Misanthrope

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army’s stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man’s barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

Army

Light

Men

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.

Character

Children

Girl

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.

Hands

House

Lying

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

Feet

Parent

Play

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.

Baby

Eye

Light

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Garden

Nature

Tree

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Adversity

Apples

Army

Artistic

Atmosphere

Autumn

Baby

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Blessing

Blue

Body

Born

Caring

Certain

Character

Childhood

Children

Christian

Claims

Consciousness

Covetousness

Curse

Enough

Enthusiasm

Eye

Faithfulness

Fall

Father

Feet

Flower

Forever

Friendship

Garden

Girl

Growing

Hands

Heart

Heart Strings

Helping

Helping Others

Home

House

Ideas

Ifs

Ignorant

Impossible

Incessant

Inches

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Quotes by Lucy Larcom

Lucy Larcom

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

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.

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

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army’s stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man’s barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

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.

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

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.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

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