In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEDogs 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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 you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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