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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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 did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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