Friendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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