I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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