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.
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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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