So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEScenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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