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 STOWEI did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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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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