It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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