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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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
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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Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
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
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
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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Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
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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Class Generosity Human Love World
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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End Friendship Kindness Truth
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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Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
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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Goodness Grace Grade Praise Silence Sin Virtue
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Cry Eyes Sorrow
The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
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
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Fall In Love Husband Love Yourself

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