Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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