There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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If 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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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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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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 never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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