Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes - Page 6

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• We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

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  Heart, Kind Deeds, Long

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.60

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• God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

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  Eye, Land, Tears

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• Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

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  Strong, Prayer, Long

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.205, Applewood Books

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• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

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  Cute, Everyday, Excellence

  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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• Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

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  Past, Strange, Sometimes

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.440, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, God

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• ...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

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  Heart, Blood, Giving

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.36, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

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  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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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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  Writing, Men, History

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1873). “The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine”, p.165

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• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

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  Music, Spiritual, Strong

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• '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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  Mother, Laughter, Children

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• Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

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  Morning, Land, Greek

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.219

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• 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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  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories”, p.26

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• Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

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  Wicked, Causes, Helping

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.455, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

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  Thinking, Made

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• 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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  Spring, Flower, Blessed

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.123, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

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  Light, Shadow, Hardship

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.573, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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  Mother, Father, Dear

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically 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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  Best Effort, People, Mind

  "The Lady Who Does Her Own Work". The Atlantic Monthly, 1864.

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• I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

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  Sleep, Wish To Die, Remembrance

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• 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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  Ocean, Soul, Hammers

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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.

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  Children, Men, America

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Complete)”, p.174, Library of Alexandria

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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

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  Doe, Literature, Impossible

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 28, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

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  Growth, Cliffs, Crystals

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands”, p.150

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• Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

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  Flower, Dark, Rocks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.630, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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