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 STOWETalk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Many 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.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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