To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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