Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhen 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.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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.
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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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