Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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