It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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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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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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