I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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