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.
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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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