Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPraise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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