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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Heart Human Told World
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Afford Himself Lose Risk
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Home Live Onself People Stone
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Care Greatness Patience Trust Truth
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!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Book Myself People Slave
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Government Imagination Judgment
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

End Friendship Kindness Truth
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Class Generosity Human Love World
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World