It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFriendships are discovered rather than made.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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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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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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