The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENo ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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