Lydia Sigourney Professions : PoetBorn : September 1, 1791Died : June 10, 1865 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Lydia Sigourney Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. Lydia Sigourney parentinginspirationchildren The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. Lydia Sigourney intelligenthomepeople We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? Lydia Sigourney educatespeakchildren 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 childhoodevilchildren Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. Lydia Sigourney pridehumilityevil 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. Lydia Sigourney educationteacherinspirational 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 spiderssteellinks 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. Lydia Sigourney gratitudepowerfulcheer A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor. Lydia Sigourney gratitudegoldsides Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride. Lydia Sigourney prosperitypridenames 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. Lydia Sigourney mothereducationsex The soul of woman lives in love. Lydia Sigourney soullove 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 independentselfhome An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. Lydia Sigourney delicacyappearancecharacter 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 eyesimpleyears 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 valuableindustrytime There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. Lydia Sigourney mixturessinhappiness Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. Lydia Sigourney tabletsregret 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 rolessuccessfulcountry Fear is the white lipp'd sire Lydia Sigourney subterfugewhitefear Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
