I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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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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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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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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