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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWe 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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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.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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