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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
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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Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
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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Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
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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Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Action Dog Karma Man Treat Work
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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Courage Love Misery Spirit Truth World
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Fall In Love Husband Love Yourself
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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Diamond Discover Ideas Light Strange
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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Beautiful Old Wake Up Woman Young
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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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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Home Immortal Labor Life Love Material Poetry Service True
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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Blame Inspirational Necessary Praise Sunshine Time
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
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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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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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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Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking
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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Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Country Deep Exotic Fancy Passion Rich World
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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