Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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