I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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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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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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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