People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
-
-
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 STOWE -
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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 STOWE -
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE