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 More Quotes by Lydia Sigourney More Quotes From Lydia Sigourney O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee. Lydia Sigourney garden dark children Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out. Lydia Sigourney light race names Praise to our Father-God, Lydia Sigourney god father hands The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. Lydia Sigourney stars mother children Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection! Lydia Sigourney perfection would-be years The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice. Lydia Sigourney learning order science The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Lydia Sigourney vanity shining talking Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. Lydia Sigourney taken loss spring
