The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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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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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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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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