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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
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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Alone Learning Live Ourselves People Responsibility Science
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Feeling Opinion Word
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Abuse Essence Slave Talk
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Discipline Eternal Glory Pain Short
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Home Immortal Labor Life Love Material Poetry Service True
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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Affection Home Place Room Strong
Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Children Democracy True Yourself
There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
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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Breathe Bright Death End Heart Broken Life Novel Reality Story
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
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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Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Care Greatness Patience Trust Truth
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Beautiful Chance Fresh Glory Immortal Man
A woman’s health is her capital.
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Capital Health Woman
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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Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Country Deep Exotic Fancy Passion Rich World
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
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
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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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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Home Live Onself People Stone
The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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