All that I intended was, that self-control, in every statio… - Sarah Josepha Hale

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All that I intended was, that self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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About Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.

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Birth Name: Sarah Josepha Buell

Alternative Names: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale • Sarah J. Hale • Sarah Hale

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And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

Nor need we power or splendor, Wide halls or lordly dome, The good, the true, the tender, These form the wealth of home.

Though youth be past and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like Box that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.

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