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I take refuge in my books.
I was born 'neath a clouded star.
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
I never could be good when I was not happy.
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -
Don't you think that the best things are already in view?
It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.
It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.
My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.