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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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