It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEA woman’s health is her capital.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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.
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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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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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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