Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHe who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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 heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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