There are griefs which grow with years.
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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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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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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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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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In 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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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