It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHe who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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