The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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