The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMoney is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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.
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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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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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!
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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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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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