Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It 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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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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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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 world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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