It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELove is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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