It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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