The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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