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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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