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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are griefs which grow with years.
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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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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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