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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?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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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Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
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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Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
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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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
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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Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Action Bitter Grave Tears
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Deal Goodness Hate People Trouble
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Deep Future Past Present Wisdom
There are griefs which grow with years.
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Grief Growth Time
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Government Imagination Judgment
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Book Myself People Slave
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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Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Equality Freedom Grave Man

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