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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?
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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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.
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Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
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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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Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.
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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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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.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
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