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Harriet Beecher-Stowe
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Quote 2200
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization -
Quote 2199
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always doneMore quotes on the topics: weakness strength mankind assistence
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Quote 2198
The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fireMore quotes on the topics: thoughts opposition critism opinion
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Quote 2197
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.More quotes on the topics: enjoyment learning teaching effort reward
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Quote 2196
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harmMore quotes on the topics: impossibility character virtue goodness
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Quote 2195
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 heroicMore quotes on the topics: opinion goodness greatness soul character
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Quote 2194
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.More quotes on the topics: art music weakness morality ideas
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Quote 2193
The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal dayMore quotes on the topics: lifetime progress eternity moment
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Quote 2192
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanityMore quotes on the topics: cleverness reason stupidity persistence
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Quote 2191
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodMore quotes on the topics: character goodness virtue sorrow understanding mind
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Quote 2190
Human nature is above all things lazy -
Quote 2189
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its placeMore quotes on the topics: faith knowledge wisdom reality god
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Quote 2188
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turnMore quotes on the topics: courage endurance opportunity fortune changes
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Quote 2187
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorruptMore quotes on the topics: duty friendship familiarity goodness character
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Quote 2186
Most mothers are instinctive philosophersMore quotes on the topics: parents family understanding emotions instinct
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Quote 2185
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless manMore quotes on the topics: faith superstition mankind
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Quote 2184
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 -
Quote 2183
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old womenMore quotes on the topics: beauty admiration age music
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Quote 2182
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are todayMore quotes on the topics: past presence future opportunity
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Quote 2181
Friendships are discovered rather than made.More quotes on the topics: friendship familiarity discovery endurance
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Quote 1886
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undoneMore quotes on the topics: tears grief death opportunity condolence
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