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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

The temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Some jokes are less agreeable than others — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy? — Harriet Beecher Stowe

spitting again, with renewed decision... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Your little child is the only true democrat. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Humankind above all is lazy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

At last I have come into a dreamland ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

Liberty! -- Electric word! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true — Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are griefs which grow with years. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rome is an astonishment! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Friendships are discovered rather than made. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The heart has no tears to give,
it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Human nature is above all things lazy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul ... — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

All men are free and equal, in the grave, — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

A woman's health is her capital. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad. — Harriet Beecher Stowe