So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere 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 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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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