What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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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 make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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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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Praise 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.
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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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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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