Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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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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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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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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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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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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