Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhen 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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