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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIntemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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