My vocation to preach on paper.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhy don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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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 never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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