Self respect is impossible without liberty.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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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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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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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