So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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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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