Your little child is the only true democrat.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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