Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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 pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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