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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
My vocation to preach on paper.
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Myself Paper Talk Voice
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Action Education Right See
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
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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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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Breathe Bright Death End Heart Broken Life Novel Reality Story
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Consequence Doubt
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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Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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End Friendship Kindness Truth
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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Class Generosity Human Love World
A woman’s health is her capital.
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Capital Health Woman
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Case Hard Rule
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking
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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Alone Learning Live Ourselves People Responsibility Science
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Beautiful Love Sadness
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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Affection Home Place Room Strong
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Home Live Onself People Stone
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Equality Freedom Grave Man
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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Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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Cold Money Sympathy
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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Courage Love Misery Spirit Truth World
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Beautiful Old Wake Up Woman Young
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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