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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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.
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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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 is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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