The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHalf the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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.
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All 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.
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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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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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