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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!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Man Right Understand World
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Close Cloud Lying See Sweet
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Consequence Doubt
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Heart Human Told World
Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Action Dog Karma Man Treat Work
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Goodness Grace Grade Praise Silence Sin Virtue
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cry Eyes Sorrow
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Feeling Opinion Word
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Myself Privacy Room Writing
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
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!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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