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.
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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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