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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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