Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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