Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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 Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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 subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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