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.
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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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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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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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