I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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