The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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 pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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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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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