there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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