He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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