Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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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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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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 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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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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