One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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