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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.
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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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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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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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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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh. . . . 'I 'spect I grow'd.'
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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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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