One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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