All 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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.
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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 obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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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.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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