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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
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
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
The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one.
— 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
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ...
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
— 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
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
Rome is an astonishment!
— 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
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
— Madeleine 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
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
I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
— 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
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
— 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
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
Liberty! -- Electric word!
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Midnight,
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — 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
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
Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
— Madeleine 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
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
— 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
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
— 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
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
— 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
What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia. — 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