Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever! Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes From 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 god beautiful beauty The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten. Harriet Beecher Stowe abuse compassion hands General rules will bear hard on particular cases. Harriet Beecher Stowe particular cases bears Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord. Harriet Beecher Stowe flower eye humble Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. Harriet Beecher Stowe strong prayer long God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. Harriet Beecher Stowe tears land eye Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap. Harriet Beecher Stowe fire dog naps If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. Harriet Beecher Stowe delicacy shame girl 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 everyday excellence cute Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe angel character men We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves. Harriet Beecher Stowe vegetarianism animal father A woman's health is her capital. Harriet Beecher Stowe womens-health fitness-motivational literature Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. Harriet Beecher Stowe stress education beauty We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return. Harriet Beecher Stowe kind-deeds heart long The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. Harriet Beecher Stowe inquiry patient self 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 struggle men book There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic. Harriet Beecher Stowe feet wings two When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race! Harriet Beecher Stowe girl country children Your little child is the only true democrat. Harriet Beecher Stowe democracy littles children People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it. Harriet Beecher Stowe hate trouble people
