There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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