The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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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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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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