Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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