Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes - Page 4

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• Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

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  Wake Up, Womans Day, International Women Day

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Howard (earl of Carlisle) (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.90

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• 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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  Self, Inquiry, Patient

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Edward Stowe (1889). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled from Her Letters and Journals”

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• The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

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  Compassion, Hands, Abuse

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

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• The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

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  Past, Two, Soul

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.236, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• There are griefs which grow with years.

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  Grief, Years, Grows

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.298, Applewood Books

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• The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

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  Time, Morning, Night

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

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  Mother, Giving, Good Man

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.93, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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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  Mother, Children, Teaching

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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• For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

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  Moving, Sleep, Reality

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.402, Electric Book Company

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• It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

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  People, Expectations, Would Be

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.124

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

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  Peace, Ocean, Wind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.325

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Religious Poems”, p.19

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• If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

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  Girl, Delicacy, Shame

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.294, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

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  Ideas, People, Firsts

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• there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

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  Silence, Independence, Opinion

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.177, Applewood Books

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• 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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  Men, World, Wells

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.168, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• At last I have come into a dreamland.

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  Paris, Lasts, Dreamland

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.158

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• To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

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  Literature, Common, Endeavor

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.189, Applewood Books

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• O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

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  Real, Compassion, Tears

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.90, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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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  Trying, Mediocrity, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Household papers and stories”

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• What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

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  Greatness, Views, Circles

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

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  Disease And Death, Causes, Eating

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

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• When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

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  Girl, Country, Children

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.12

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• What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

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  Doors, Voice, Mountain

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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