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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Age: 85 †
Born: 1811
Born: June 14
Died: 1896
Died: July 1
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
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...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.
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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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I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.
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