Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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.
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