The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIntemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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