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 STOWEIf you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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