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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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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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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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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