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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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