There are griefs which grow with years.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhen 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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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 who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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