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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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Children Feeling Freedom Hope Myself Silence Talk Time Woman Writing
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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God Myself Writing
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Bond Build Discover Friendship
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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.
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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself
There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Book Myself People Slave
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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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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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Myself Privacy Room Writing
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Death Eat Fruit Sick
The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Blood Heart Silence Tears
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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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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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 are griefs which grow with years.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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