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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Diamond Discover Ideas Light Strange
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Consequence Doubt
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Influence Mark Mindset Oneself Superiority
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
It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Man Right Understand World
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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Alone Learning Live Ourselves People Responsibility Science
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Afford Himself Lose Risk
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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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
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
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
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Feeling Opinion Word
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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God Myself Writing
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Case Hard Rule
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Book Myself People Slave
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Discipline Eternal Glory Pain Short
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Children Democracy True Yourself
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
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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Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
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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Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
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
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.
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Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Respect
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

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