O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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 past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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