It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEYour little child is the only true democrat.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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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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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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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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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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