No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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