Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEOne part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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