General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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 resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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