Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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 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.
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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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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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