General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETreat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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