I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWECommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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