Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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.
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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