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Rome is an astonishment!
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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Novelist
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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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Rome
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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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
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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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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh. . . . 'I 'spect I grow'd.'
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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
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Friends are discovered rather than made there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Your little child is the only true democrat.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Money is a great help everywhere - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
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