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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETreat ’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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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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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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By 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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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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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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 generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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