It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll 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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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