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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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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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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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