It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESelf respect is impossible without liberty.
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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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