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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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