The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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 is more done with pens than with swords.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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Home 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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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