The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The 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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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