There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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 world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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