The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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