There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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