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A woman’s health is her capital.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 STOWE

Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
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
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Close Cloud Lying See Sweet
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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Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking
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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Home Immortal Labor Life Love Material Poetry Service True
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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Herself Introduction Moments Order Place Woman
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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Affection Home Place Room Strong
Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Greatness Help Honesty Money
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
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Beautiful Chance Fresh Glory Immortal Man
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.
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Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
My vocation to preach on paper.
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Myself Paper Talk Voice
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.
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Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
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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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
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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Class Generosity Human Love World

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