The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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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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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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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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 is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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