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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Experience Goodness Knowledge Love Need Sick
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Case Hard Rule
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Herself Introduction Moments Order Place Woman
A woman’s health is her capital.
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Capital Health Woman
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Black Equality Forever Grasp Hands
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Far Perfection Respect Worth
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Cry Eyes Sorrow
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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Animal Deal Father Heaven Ourselves Remember
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Influence Mark Mindset Oneself Superiority
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!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
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 STOWE

Cold Money Sympathy
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Deal Goodness Hate People Trouble
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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Busy Exception Marriage Woman World

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