There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWitness, 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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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