Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes - Page 2

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• If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Friendship, True Friend, Selfish

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.55

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• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

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  Real, Condolences, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.282, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Maturity, Discovery, Years

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.249, Applewood Books

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• All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.159, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Self respect is impossible without liberty.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Self, Self Respect, Liberty

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.189

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• 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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doubt, Faces, Firsts

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.247, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

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  Hate, People, Trouble

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1875). “We and Our Neighbors: Or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street: (Sequel to "My Wife and I.") A Novel”, p.161

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Blood

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.378, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

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  Atmosphere, Opinion, Subtle

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.322, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

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  Music, Song, Oil

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1856). “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”, p.325

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• ...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

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  Beautiful, Slavery, Administration

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.16, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

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  Doubt, Ought, Happens

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Illustrated)”, p.8850, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Merit, Speak

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

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• 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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Book, Men

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.1

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• The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

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  Cooking, Preparation, Drink

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.119, Applewood Books

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• Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

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  Children, Growing Up, Grows

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.206, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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?

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  Law, Ideas, Feet

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.364, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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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  Dog, Men, Ems

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.98, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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.

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  Love, Sake, Immortal

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.580, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Father, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Queer Little People”, p.150

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• I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Book, People, Slavery

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Too Much, Helping, Honestly

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.104, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

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  Country, Passion, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America: With Fifty Splendid Engravings”, p.138

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• Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

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  Angel, Age, May

  "The Minister's Wooing".

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• Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Love, Summer, Flower

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