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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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 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.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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