Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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