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... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Hale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1788
Born: October 24
Died: 1879
Died: April 30
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Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.
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Americans have two ardent passions the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
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self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.
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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
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Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.
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Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!
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Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
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Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
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Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.
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Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
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In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.
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And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.
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A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.
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There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.
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Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.
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The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.
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Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
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Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.
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A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.
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Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.
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