There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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 griefs which grow with years.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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