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 STOWEIf we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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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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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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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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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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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