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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

— Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Little Foxes (1865)

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)

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Human nature is above all things — lazy.

Household Papers and Stories (1864)

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)

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