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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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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 were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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