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 STOWEThe heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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