It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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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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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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