I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHome is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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