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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Death Eat Fruit Sick
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
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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Courage Love Misery Spirit Truth World
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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Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Far Perfection Respect Worth
There are griefs which grow with years.
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Grief Growth Time
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Equality Freedom Grave Man
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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Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
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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Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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End Friendship Kindness Truth
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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Animal Deal Father Heaven Ourselves Remember
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.
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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Book Myself People Slave
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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Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
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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Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
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
There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Care Greatness Patience Trust Truth
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Case Hard Rule
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
Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Impossible Liberty Respect
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Afford Himself Lose Risk
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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