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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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Herself Introduction Moments Order Place Woman
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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Affection Home Place Room Strong
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Deep Future Past Present Wisdom
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Cold Friendship Love Selfish True
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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Diamond Discover Ideas Light Strange
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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Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Consequence Doubt
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Book Myself People Slave
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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Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Best Inspirational People Strong Support Weakness
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Afford Himself Lose Risk
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Case Hard Rule
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Discipline Eternal Glory Pain Short
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking