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 STOWEScenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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