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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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 heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against 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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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