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Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good ... what account have I to give for my long years?

I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God. Why does he let things be so?" "O,

Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

spitting again, with renewed decision...

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

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.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

Humankind above all is lazy.

My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there!

He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like

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.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

The Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Being an indigenous talent of the African race;

It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

It isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so.

Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

There are griefs which grow with years.

Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - prepare - a - place - for - you." Cicero,

Liberty! -- Electric word!

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Now is all the time I have anything to do with, said Miss Ophelia.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn

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.

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

My vocation to preach on paper.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

When all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best.

I've lost everything in this world, and it's clean gone, forever
and now I can't lose heaven, too; no, I can't get to be wicked, besides all.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

We never know how we love til we try to unlove!

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia.

All men are free and equal, in the grave,

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.

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

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

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.

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

Rome is an astonishment!

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.

My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of - what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.

No matter how kind her mistress is, - no matter how much she loves her home; beg her not to go back, - for slavery always ends in misery.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze

These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right.