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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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