The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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It 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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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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 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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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