So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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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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 make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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 longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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 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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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