"To do common things perfectly is far better……" — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
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97 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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…
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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many…
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great…
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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,…
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once…
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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…
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of…
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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you…
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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…
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