By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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