So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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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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