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How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

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 ...

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

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.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

I take refuge in my books.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

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.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,
namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

The frozen ocean ... of Boston life.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

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.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.