It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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