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Harriet Beecher Stowe Inspirational Quotes (124)

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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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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!
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intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Money is a great help everywhere - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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Rome is an astonishment!
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...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?
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Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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