Your little child is the only true democrat.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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