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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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

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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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My vocation to preach on paper.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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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

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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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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

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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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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