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.
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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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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 obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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 men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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