The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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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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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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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