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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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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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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, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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