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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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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About Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play and was influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote over 30 books, incl…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Harriet Beecher StoweAll 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.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide w…
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
A woman's health is her capital.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.