General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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 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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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