In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
-
-
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE