Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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