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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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