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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sublime, Mind, Steel

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Rights, Want, Women Want

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.1292, Library of America

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• Humankind above all is lazy.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lazy, Humankind

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• What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Missing, Ophelia, Said

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.283, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Pain, Sorrow, May

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

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• Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

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  Friends, People, Painting

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1871). “My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History”, p.191

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• One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

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  House, Males, Reform

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• That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Eye, Self, Ignorant

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.162, Applewood Books

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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.

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  Men, Life And Death, Form

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.350

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• Women are the true modelers of social order.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Order, Social, Social Order

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• Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Thinking, Clothes, Rags

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.256, Applewood Books

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• the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

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  Silence, Delicacy, Charm

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes ... Author's edition, revised”, p.113

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• A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Turkeys, Inspire, Soul

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• Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

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  Writing, Agony, Sorrow

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands”, p.300

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• In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Coffee, Mean, Vegetables

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “House and Home Papers”, p.230, Applewood Books

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• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

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  God, Christian, Ocean

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

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• Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Slave Ships, Light, Sharks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.530, Library of America

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• For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Human Nature, Inconsistent, Humans

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.125, Applewood Books

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• Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

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  Beautiful, Forever, Desire

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.284, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

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  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

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  Expression, Ideas, Office

  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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• the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

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  Children, Parent, Fairy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “The pearl of Orr's Island”, Houghton Mifflin Co.

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• The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Joy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.35

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• a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

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  Family, Home, Men

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