People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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 feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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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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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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