The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEBy what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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