Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHome is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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