A woman's health is her capital.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Quote

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Quote

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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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Quote

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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