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the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
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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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
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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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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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