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 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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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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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