Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere is more done with pens than with swords.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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