Every true friend is a glimpse of God. Lucy Larcom More Quotes by Lucy Larcom More Quotes From Lucy Larcom Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! Lucy Larcom memorial-day remembrance liberty June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; Lucy Larcom flower summer fall The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses. Lucy Larcom intelligence learning intellectual I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine. Lucy Larcom inches land memorable Those who plant trees plant hope. Lucy Larcom plant garden tree That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others. Lucy Larcom service-to-others certain vision Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul. Lucy Larcom growing-up loyalty sweet Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? Lucy Larcom glory tree littles It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. Lucy Larcom learning expectations mistake These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, Lucy Larcom pride wise life 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. Lucy Larcom house lying hands 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. Lucy Larcom zest impossible friendship The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. Lucy Larcom covetousness curse character The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping. Lucy Larcom sleep laughing children I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school. Lucy Larcom light education school My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me. Lucy Larcom atmosphere poetry may A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being? Lucy Larcom unseen doe world A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses. Lucy Larcom poetry morning thinking Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality. Lucy Larcom rich-or-poor individuality children Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. Lucy Larcom rich-or-poor home reality
