Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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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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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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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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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