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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.
intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.
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.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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!
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.