Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHe who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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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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