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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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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So 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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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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