O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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