O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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 longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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