If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMany 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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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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.
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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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