Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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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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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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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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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.