So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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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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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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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