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!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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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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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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