Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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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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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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