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 STOWECommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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