It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELove is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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