Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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