O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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