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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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