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My vocation to preach on paper.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Age: 85 †
Born: 1811
Born: June 14
Died: 1896
Died: July 1
Author
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
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Preach
Paper

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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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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
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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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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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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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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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It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
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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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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.
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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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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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