It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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