It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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 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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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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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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