If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople 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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will 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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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