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.
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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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