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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWECommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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