Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Half 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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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