I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWECommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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