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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

My vocation to preach on paper.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Myself Paper Talk Voice
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Beautiful Chance Fresh Glory Immortal Man
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Action Dog Karma Man Treat Work
There are griefs which grow with years.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Grief Growth Time
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Man Right Understand World
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Best Inspirational People Strong Support Weakness
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
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 STOWE

Breathe Bright Death End Heart Broken Life Novel Reality Story
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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cold Money Sympathy
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Abuse Essence Slave Talk
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Action Education Right See
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
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

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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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