The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWe should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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