There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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