Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHalf the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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