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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEA woman’s health is her capital.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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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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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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