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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIn the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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