American - Author | June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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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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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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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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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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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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