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Harriet Beecher Stowe

It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Experience Goodness Knowledge Love Need Sick
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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Beautiful Old Wake Up Woman Young
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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Action Dog Karma Man Treat Work
Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Respect
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Best Inspirational People Strong Support Weakness
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Cry Eyes Sorrow
A woman’s health is her capital.
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Capital Health Woman
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Man Right Understand World
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Influence Mark Mindset Oneself Superiority
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Action Education Right See
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
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
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
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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Home Immortal Labor Life Love Material Poetry Service True
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Cold Friendship Love Selfish True
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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Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Abuse Essence Slave Talk
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Heart Human Told World
There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
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
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Myself Privacy Room Writing
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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Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
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
Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Breathe Bright Death End Heart Broken Life Novel Reality Story

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