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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEOf 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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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