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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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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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