It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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