Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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 were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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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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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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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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