Oh! wondrous power, how little understood, </br> Entrusted to the Mother's mind alone </br> To fashion genius, form the soul for good, </br> Inspire … - Sarah Josepha Hale
" "Oh! wondrous power, how little understood, </br> Entrusted to the Mother's mind alone </br> To fashion genius, form the soul for good, </br> Inspire a West, or train a Washington!
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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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You may indulge any childish propensity with less injury to the intellect than that of gluttony. Eating to excess constantly will deaden or destroy the energies of the mind, while those of the animal are increased, till the immortal becomes perfectly swinish—and yet many tender, delicate mothers seem to think, that to make their children eat is all that is requisite to make them great.
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