Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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