I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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