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Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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)

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?

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

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)

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

The king ...
like the vulgar, thinks, feels, acts, and lives
Just as his father did; the unconquered powers
Of precedent and custom interpose
Between a king and virtue.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab (1813)

The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

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