Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESelf respect is impossible without liberty.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll 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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I 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.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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