If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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