The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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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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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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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