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it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room it needs knowledge and experience.
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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Connecticut
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
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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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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
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Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
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I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
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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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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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God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
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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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