In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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