The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMany 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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 longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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