Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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.
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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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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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