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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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