If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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