One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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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?
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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