To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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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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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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