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Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good ... what account have I to give for my long years? Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good ... what account have I to give for my long years?
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God. Why does he let things be so?" "O, I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God. Why does he let things be so?" "O,
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy? Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: spitting again, with renewed decision... spitting again, with renewed decision...
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure? Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor. Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Your little child is the only true democrat. Your little child is the only true democrat.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: 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. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Humankind above all is lazy. Humankind above all is lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there! My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people'sglass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone. One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future. The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once. The Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp. In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Being an indigenous talent of the African race; Being an indigenous talent of the African race;
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: It isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience. It isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war! Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Women are the true modelers of social order. Women are the true modelers of social order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so. I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen. Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: There are griefs which grow with years. There are griefs which grow with years.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - prepare - a - place - for - you." Cicero,
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Liberty! -- Electric word! Liberty! -- Electric word!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide. Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: General rules will bear hard on particular cases. General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Now is all the time I have anything to do with, said Miss Ophelia. Now is all the time I have anything to do with, said Miss Ophelia.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works. 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 quotes: never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself? Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: 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. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: My vocation to preach on paper. My vocation to preach on paper.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you. If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: When all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best. When all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I've lost everything in this world, and it's clean gone, forever and now I can't lose heaven, too; no, I can't get to be wicked, besides all. I've lost everything in this world, and it's clean gone, forever
and now I can't lose heaven, too; no, I can't get to be wicked, besides all.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music. There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: There is more done with pens than with swords. There is more done with pens than with swords.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts. Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes. It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: We never know how we love til we try to unlove! We never know how we love til we try to unlove!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it. People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her. Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow. Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad. Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Human nature is above all things lazy. Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us. Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion. Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Midnight,strange mystic hour,when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia. In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: All men are free and equal, in the grave, All men are free and equal, in the grave,
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage. Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land. That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: 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. 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 quotes: They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side. They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Rome is an astonishment! Rome is an astonishment!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one. The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of - what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of - what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale. Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: O, what an untold world there is in one human heart! O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it. I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it. It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: No matter how kind her mistress is, - no matter how much she loves her home; beg her not to go back, - for slavery always ends in misery. No matter how kind her mistress is, - no matter how much she loves her home; beg her not to go back, - for slavery always ends in misery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: What's your hurry?"Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia. What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it. There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest. The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter. As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words. So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes: These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right.

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