Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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 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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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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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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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