Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEOf 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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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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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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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.
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