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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

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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Novelist
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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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'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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O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
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Praise is sunshine it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth blame and rebuke are rain and hail they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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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 am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
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