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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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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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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