It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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