It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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