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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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 is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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