Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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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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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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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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