there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFriendships are discovered rather than made.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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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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