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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, 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?
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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