No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are griefs which grow with years.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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