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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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 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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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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