The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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