What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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