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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Age: 85 †
Born: 1811
Born: June 14
Died: 1896
Died: July 1
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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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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As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.
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...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.
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...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.
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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!
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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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