The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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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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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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