To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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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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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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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