"He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan."

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Source : Eliza R. SNOW (1856). “Poems, religious, historical, and political”, p.136

Eliza R. Snow

#People Quotes #Tears Quotes #Widows Quotes

“The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done...Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.”
“My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when Im rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!”
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”
“When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.”
“That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.”
“Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.”
“I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser”, p.232
“Almost all the people whoâ€™ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldnâ€™t but have met them.”

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