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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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