Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Age: 85 †
Born: 1811
Born: June 14
Died: 1896
Died: July 1
Author
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Enrieta Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
Never
Wept
Comprehend
Sorrow
Compassion
Eyes
Eye
Experience
Cannot
More quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is more done with pens than with swords.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
