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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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