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 STOWEthere is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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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.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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