We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? Lydia Sigourney More Quotes by Lydia Sigourney More Quotes From Lydia Sigourney Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. Lydia Sigourney parenting inspiration children The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. Lydia Sigourney intelligent home people 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 childhood evil children Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. Lydia Sigourney pride humility evil 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 education teacher inspirational 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 spiders steel links 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 gratitude powerful cheer A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor. Lydia Sigourney gratitude gold sides Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride. Lydia Sigourney prosperity pride names 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 mother education sex The soul of woman lives in love. Lydia Sigourney soul love 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 independent self home An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. Lydia Sigourney delicacy appearance character 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 eye simple years 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 valuable industry time There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. Lydia Sigourney mixtures sin happiness Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. Lydia Sigourney tablets regret 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 roles successful country Fear is the white lipp'd sire Lydia Sigourney subterfuge white fear Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution. Lydia Sigourney vigorous constitution exercise
