People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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