So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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.
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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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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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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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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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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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