I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo 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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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