The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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