There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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