Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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