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Quotes from Household Papers and Stories — Harriet Beecher Stowe

1811–1896 United States

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7 quotes

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

Human nature is above all things — lazy.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

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.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

A woman's health is her capital.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harriet Beecher Stowe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.