If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there,…

Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will...

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will...

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why...

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into...

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up...

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and...

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is...

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

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

You needn't be trying to comfort me, I tell you my dolly is dead! There's...

You needn't be trying to comfort me, I tell you my dolly is dead! There's...

He would make a lovely corpse.

He would make a lovely corpse.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...