The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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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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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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