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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Respect
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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Cold Money Sympathy
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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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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Home Live Onself People Stone
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Black Equality Forever Grasp Hands
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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Beautiful Chance Fresh Glory Immortal Man
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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Cold Friendship Love Selfish True
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave
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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Class Generosity Human Love World
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
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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