It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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