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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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