One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESelf respect is impossible without liberty.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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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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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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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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