Quotes by Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney

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

Gold

Gratitude

Sides

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.

Education

Mother

Sex

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

Appearance

Character

Delicacy

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.

Country

Roles

Successful

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.

Industry

Time

Valuable

Fear is the white lipp’d sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

Fear

Subterfuge

White

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

Loss

Spring

Taken

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.

Links

Spiders

Steel

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.

Childhood

Children

Evil

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.

Cheer

Gratitude

Powerful

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Appearance

Character

Cheer

Childhood

Children

Constitution

Country

Dark

Delicacy

Educate

Education

Evil

Exercise

Eye

Father

Fear

Garden

God

Gold

Gratitude

Hands

Happiness

Home

Humility

Independent

Industry

Inspiration

Inspirational

Intelligent

Learning

Light

Links

Loss

Love

Mixtures

Mother

Names

Order

Parenting

People

Perfection

Powerful

Pride

Prosperity

Race

Regret

Roles

Science

Self

Sex

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Quotes by Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney

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

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

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.

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.

Fear is the white lipp’d sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

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

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.

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.

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