It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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