Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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