Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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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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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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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 never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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