It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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