Top 100 Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
#2. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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#4. O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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#5. Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
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#6. 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.
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#8. Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - prepare - a - place - for - you." Cicero,
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#9. In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.
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#11. Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story, - the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper.
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#15. We ought to be free to meet and mingle,
to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principals of human equality.
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#16. Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.
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#17. And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.
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#18. He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, - like
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#19. It isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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#20. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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#21. The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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#22. I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.
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#24. It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
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#25. 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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#27. The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.
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#29. Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good ... what account have I to give for my long years?
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#31. 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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#32. Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.
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#33. There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
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#34. Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh ... 'I 'spect I grow'd.'
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#38. The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.
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#39. There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.
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#40. It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.
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#43. It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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#44. Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.
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#45. The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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#46. If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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#47. But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal life; and, where His spirit is, neither degrading stripes, nor blood, nor insults, can make the Christian's last struggle less than glorious.
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#48. The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.
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#50. The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.
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#52. Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.
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#54. I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.
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#55. 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.
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#57. While politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest and passion, the great cause of human liberty is in the hands of one ... who shall not fail nor be discouraged ...
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#58. Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
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#59. There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
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#60. There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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#61. God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
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#62. Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
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#63. What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
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#64. 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.
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#66. Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
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#67. Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!
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#72. 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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#74. Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
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#75. It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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#76. I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.
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#77. O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
-Augustine St. Clare
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#78. Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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#79. For twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;
headaches and heartaches innumerable had been cured there,
difficulties spritual and temporal solved there,
all by one good, loving woman, God bless her!
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#80. There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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#81. She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze
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#82. 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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#83. How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given? ... No: there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace.
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#85. 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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#86. The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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#87. 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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#88. O yes! a machine for saving work, is it? He'd invent that, I'll be bound; let a nigger alone for that, any time. They are all labor-saving machines themselves, every one of 'em. No, he shall tramp!
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#90. Heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it, - which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of
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#92. Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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#93. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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#95. Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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!
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#98. I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
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#99. One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no, - they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.
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#100. Look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, e very way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face - look at my hands - look at my body," and the young man dr ew himself up proudly. "Why am I not a man, as much as anybody?
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