It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhy don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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There 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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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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 pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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