People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETalk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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