He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPraise 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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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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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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