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There 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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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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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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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