In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhat 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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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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