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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 STOWE

Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Give Up Place Time
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Consequence Doubt
Your little child is the only true democrat.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Children Democracy True Yourself
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Heart Human Told World
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Class Generosity Human Love World
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Feeling Opinion Word
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Far Perfection Respect Worth
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Affection Home Place Room Strong
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Best Inspirational People Strong Support Weakness
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Death Eat Fruit Sick
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave