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.
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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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