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 STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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