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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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Goodness Grace Grade Praise Silence Sin Virtue
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Heart Human Told World
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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Affection Home Place Room Strong
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Bond Build Discover Friendship
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Care Greatness Patience Trust Truth
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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End Friendship Kindness Truth
It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Experience Goodness Knowledge Love Need Sick
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Animal Deal Father Heaven Ourselves Remember
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Feeling Opinion Word
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
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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Courage Love Misery Spirit Truth World
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Black Equality Forever Grasp Hands
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Cold Money Sympathy
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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Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Home Immortal Labor Life Love Material Poetry Service True
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Myself Privacy Room Writing
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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God Myself Writing
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Beautiful Chance Fresh Glory Immortal Man
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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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
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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Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
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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Blame Inspirational Necessary Praise Sunshine Time
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Death Eat Fruit Sick