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.
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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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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 isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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