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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFriendships are discovered rather than made.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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