I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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We 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.
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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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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 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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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