Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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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.
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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.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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