We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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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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