The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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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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.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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