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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETo do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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