Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAny mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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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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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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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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