Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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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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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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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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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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