The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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O, 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?
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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