No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo 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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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