When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWECommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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