The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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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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