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 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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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