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?
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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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