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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESelf respect is impossible without liberty.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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