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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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No ornament of a house can compare with books they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
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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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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.
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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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Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take 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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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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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Humankind above all is lazy.
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I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
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