My vocation to preach on paper.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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