Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes From Harriet Beecher Stowe Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. Harriet Beecher Stowe fanaticismjudgmentimagination So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words. Harriet Beecher Stowe subtleatmosphereopinion The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family. Harriet Beecher Stowe drinkpreparationcooking 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe sobrietymomentsorder 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe inspirationallovefriendship I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. Harriet Beecher Stowe teachingmotherchildren 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe doubtfacesfirsts 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 passionheartcountry 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. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you! Harriet Beecher Stowe giving-upprayermean 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? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath. Harriet Beecher Stowe selfishchurchmen Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. Harriet Beecher Stowe heartmenblood 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 timemorningnight The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe literaturereasonclever My vocation to preach on paper. Harriet Beecher Stowe vocationpaper It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. Harriet Beecher Stowe intelligencemindappreciation These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus. Harriet Beecher Stowe drinkingbeerthinking Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly. Harriet Beecher Stowe honestlytoo-muchhelping It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures. Harriet Beecher Stowe maturitydiscoveryyears Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow. Harriet Beecher Stowe sorroweyecompassion 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 slaverylandmen
