there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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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 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.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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