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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll 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 you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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