So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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