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 STOWEThere are griefs which grow with years.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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