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There is more done with pens than with swords.

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
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
Swords
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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the Lord gives good many things twice over but he don't give ye a mother but once.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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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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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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Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
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