If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, 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!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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