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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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