I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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