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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Grief Growth Time
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
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
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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Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Deal Goodness Hate People Trouble
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Myself Privacy Room Writing
Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Breathe Bright Death End Heart Broken Life Novel Reality Story
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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Herself Introduction Moments Order Place Woman
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Afford Himself Lose Risk
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Consequence Doubt
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
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
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
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
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Book Myself People Slave

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