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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
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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There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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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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intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.
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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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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
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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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As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
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the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
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At last I have come into a dreamland.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.
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