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 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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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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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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 isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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