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 STOWEThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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