O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEBy 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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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