In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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 literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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 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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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