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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELove is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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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.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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 is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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.
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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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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.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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