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There is more done with pens than with swords.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Fall In Love Husband Love Yourself
The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Abuse Essence Slave Talk
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Government Imagination Judgment
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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Cold Friendship Love Selfish True
It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Experience Goodness Knowledge Love Need Sick
A woman’s health is her capital.
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Capital Health Woman
Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Greatness Help Honesty Money
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Action Education Right See
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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Blame Inspirational Necessary Praise Sunshine Time
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Consequence Doubt
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Myself Privacy Room Writing
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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God Myself Writing
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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Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
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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Diamond Discover Ideas Light Strange
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
There are griefs which grow with years.
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Grief Growth Time
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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Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Discipline Eternal Glory Pain Short
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Far Perfection Respect Worth
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Goodness Grace Grade Praise Silence Sin Virtue
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Death Eat Fruit Sick
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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Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young

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