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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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