The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENo ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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