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.
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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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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 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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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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