It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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 you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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