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Harriet Beecher Stowe

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Care Greatness Patience Trust Truth
Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Beautiful Wake Up Woman
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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Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
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
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Deep Future Past Present Wisdom
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave
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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Herself Introduction Moments Order Place Woman
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Government Imagination Judgment
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
A woman’s health is her capital.
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Capital Health Woman
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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Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
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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Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Consequence Doubt
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
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Abuse Essence Slave Talk
There are griefs which grow with years.
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Grief Growth Time

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