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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 STOWE

Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Bond Build Discover Friendship
There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Alone Learning Live Ourselves People Responsibility Science
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Give Up Place Time
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

God Myself Writing
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Affection Home Place Room Strong
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cold Friendship Love Selfish True
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
The 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 STOWE

Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Help Prayer Soul Sweet Thinking
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Courage Love Misery Spirit Truth World
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Far Perfection Respect Worth