No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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