there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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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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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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