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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEOne 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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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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