Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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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 is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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