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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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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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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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