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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
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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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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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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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...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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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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My vocation to preach on paper.
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...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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At last I have come into a dreamland.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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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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Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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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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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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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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Rome is an astonishment!
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