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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIn the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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 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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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