I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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