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Lydia H. Sigourney
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“Ye say they all have pass'd away, / That noble race and brave, / That their light canoes have vanish'd / From off the crested wave / That mid the forests where they roam'd / There rings no hunter's shout; / But their name is on your waters, / Ye may not wash it out.”
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“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”
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“Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.”
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“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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“Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.”
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“The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.”
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“There can be no persevering industry wthout a deep sense of the value of time.”
Lydia H. Sigourney, U.S. poet, writer
(1791 - 1865)
Full name: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney.