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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAny mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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