So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETrue 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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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