Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMany a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEOf 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFriendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESelf respect is impossible without liberty.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEA woman’s health is her capital.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHe who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIn the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE