What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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