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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAny mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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