Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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 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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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