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.
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.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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I 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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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