So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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