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It 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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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