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Harriet Beecher Stowe Inspirational Quotes (124)

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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
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Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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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.
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Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.
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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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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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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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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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!
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No ornament of a house can compare with books they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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