Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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