Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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 obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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