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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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women
Cleanliness
Courtesy
Order
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
People
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Life
God
Heart
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Faith
Being
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
God
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nature
Human nature
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mind
Sorrow
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
America
Children
EnglExpectation
Houses
Living
Man
A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Health
Woman
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mothers
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
Beauty
Women
Girls
Old
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
People
Body
Circumstances
Mind
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Music
Ideas
Expression
Painting
Spiritual
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mediocrity
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abuse