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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

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
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Close Cloud Lying See Sweet
There are griefs which grow with years.
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Grief Growth Time
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Goodness Grace Grade Praise Silence Sin Virtue
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Action Education Right See
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Far Perfection Respect Worth
The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
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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Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Case Hard Rule
Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Beautiful Wake Up Woman
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Black Equality Forever Grasp Hands
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep