No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe More Quotes From Harriet Beecher Stowe The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces. Harriet Beecher Stowe wall strong beautiful The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification. Harriet Beecher Stowe heart beautiful beauty Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. Harriet Beecher Stowe veils strange midnight After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity? Harriet Beecher Stowe pain soul men 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe church kind lying Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines. Harriet Beecher Stowe lines grace boundaries If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. Harriet Beecher Stowe women-want rights want The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity. Harriet Beecher Stowe hammers ocean soul Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing. Harriet Beecher Stowe When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe never-give-up you time inspirational I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. Harriet Beecher Stowe his did write god Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe drive best mind people
