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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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