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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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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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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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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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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Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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Money is a great help everywhere - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Rome is an astonishment!
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the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.
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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 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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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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