Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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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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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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