There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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