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. Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes From 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 slavery land men To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. Harriet Beecher Stowe endeavor literature common One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe mediocrity literature trying If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you. Harriet Beecher Stowe falling-in-love husband love-you If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. Harriet Beecher Stowe ifs writing rooms True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. Harriet Beecher Stowe immortal sake love Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. Harriet Beecher Stowe real heart people People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. Harriet Beecher Stowe people ideas firsts Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen. Harriet Beecher Stowe ought doubt happens O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! Harriet Beecher Stowe motivational men new-day The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe good-morning optimistic night Friendships are discovered rather than made. Harriet Beecher Stowe literature made For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled. Harriet Beecher Stowe sleep reality moving What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. Harriet Beecher Stowe greatness circles views Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide. Harriet Beecher Stowe sweet sympathy inspirational Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. Harriet Beecher Stowe rehearsal strong home So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe law heart beautiful Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe philosopher mothers-day mom ...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. Harriet Beecher Stowe heart giving blood 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
