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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
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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Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Animal Deal Father Heaven Ourselves Remember
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Cold Money Sympathy
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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Courage Love Misery Spirit Truth World
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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Herself Introduction Moments Order Place Woman
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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Close Cloud Lying See Sweet
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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Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Action Bitter Grave Tears
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
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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Affection Home Place Room Strong
Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Beautiful Wake Up Woman
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Respect

He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

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