The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll 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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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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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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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