There is more done with pens than with swords.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETalk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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.
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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!
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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