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.
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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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