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.
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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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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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?
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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