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 STOWEThe obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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 heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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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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.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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