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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETo do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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 pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Why 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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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