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.
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 obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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