If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, 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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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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