If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEDogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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