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Harriet Beecher Stowe has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by…
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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging…
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is…
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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…
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key…
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for…
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life,…
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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where…
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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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…
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Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
— Richard Bach
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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state…
— Samuel Johnson
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To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
— Robert A. M. Stern
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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled…
— Dennis Prager
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It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's…
— George Carlin
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She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a…
— David Sedaris
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Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that…
— Stephen Hawking
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Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.…
— Richard Bach
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is…
— John Maynard Keynes
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