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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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 pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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