Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good ... what account have I to give for my long years?
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,
Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.
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.
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
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!
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.
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!
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.
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.
Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - prepare - a - place - for - you." Cicero,
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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.
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
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.
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.
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.
and now I can't lose heaven, too; no, I can't get to be wicked, besides all.
Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.
That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.
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.
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.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
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.
God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.