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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!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  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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• If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Rooms, Ifs

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Animal, America, Doubt

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.132, Applewood Books

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• Your little child is the only true democrat.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Democracy, Littles

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• Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Each New Day, Chance, Glory

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.346, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Equality, Hands, White

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• Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Real, Heart, People

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.141, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• My vocation to preach on paper.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Paper, Vocation

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2017). “Uncle Tom's Cabin (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.436, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mean, Glasses, People

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.167, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Dog, Fire, Naps

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Queer Little People”, p.147

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• A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Ships, Mystery

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.314, Applewood Books

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• Rome is an astonishment!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Rome, Astonishment

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.234, Library of Alexandria

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• Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Grace, Lines, Boundaries

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.240

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• the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Hope, Joy, Tides

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.358, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lazy, Literature, Laziness

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.561, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  People, Intuition, Sensitive

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1856). “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”, p.33

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• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Jealous, Reflection, Self

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.77

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• Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong Women, Real, Empowering

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• The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, World, Steps

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1871). “My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History”, p.74

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sweet, Heart, Sunset

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Toms Cabin: Life Among the Lowly: Easyread Large Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Heart, World, Human Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.354, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sick, Needs, Rooms

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.406, Applewood Books

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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• The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  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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