If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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