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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENo ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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