It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWe should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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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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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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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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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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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