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

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

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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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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid an... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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There is more done with pens than with swords. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is more done with pens than with swords.

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...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the es... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are tod... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

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I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely di... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as th... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is... by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

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