By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhy don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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