He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEA woman’s health is her capital.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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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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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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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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