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Harriet Beecher Stowe Inspirational Quotes (124)

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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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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At last I have come into a dreamland.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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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.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.
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I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room it needs knowledge and experience.
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...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
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