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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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