If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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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 did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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