People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWe 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.
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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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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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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