01In print by 1911 ADStill must I climb if I would rest; The bird soars upward to his nest; The young leaf on the tree-top high Cradles itself within the sky. I cannot in the valley stay: The great horizons stretch away; The very cliffs that wall me round Are ladders unto higher ground. I am not glad till I have known Life that can lift me from mine own; A loftier level must be won. A mightier strength to lean upon.Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
02In print by 1911 ADThe beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it,—whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening, that the day was well worth its fatigues.Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
06UndatedNo one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
07UndatedWhatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
08UndatedA drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
09UndatedWhat is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
10UndatedFrom the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.Lucy Larcom / quote ↗
11UndatedA 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedWhether 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 / quote ↗
