Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
An American abolitionist and writer, most famous as the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(1811 - 1896)
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'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
[Wickedness]
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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.
[America]
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A woman's health is her capital.
[Health]
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
[Ideas]
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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
[Self Reliance]
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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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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.
[Beauty]
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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.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
[Against]
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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.
[God]
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
[Atheism]
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