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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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At last I have come into a dreamland.
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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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Humankind above all is lazy.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
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Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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