The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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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.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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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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