The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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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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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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 obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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