Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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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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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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