A woman’s health is her capital.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet 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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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