Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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