Beecher Stowe House

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    A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
    For they have their own thoughts.
    You may house their bodies but not their souls,
    For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
    Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)