The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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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