There are griefs which grow with years.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESweet 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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Dogs 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.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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