The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWENo ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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