By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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 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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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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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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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