If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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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.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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