General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEScenes 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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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