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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWitness, 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!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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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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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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