Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
A ship-building, a ship-sailing community has an unconscious poetry ever underlying its existence.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
My soul an't yours Mas'r! You haven't bought it,—ye can't buy it! It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

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Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

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Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee.

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Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep—just a little, you know, to swear by, as 't were.

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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.

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As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

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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.

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Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...

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That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

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This is an age of the world where nations are trembling and convulsed.

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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

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Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true

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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.

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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

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Huldy was one o' them that has the gift, so that if you just give 'em the leastest sprig of anything they make a great bush out of it right away.

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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

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The temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

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Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

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A true gentleman... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
It don't look well, now, for a feller to be praisin' himself; but I say it jest because it's the truth. I believe I'm reckoned to bring in about the finest droves of niggers that is brought in, — at least, I've been told so; if I have once, I reckon I have a hundred times, — all in good case, — fat and likely, and I lose as few as any man in the business. And I lays it all to my management, sir; and humanity, sir, I may say, is the great pillar of my management.

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It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; 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.

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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

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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?

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His cravings and dreams were not for somebody to be devoted to, but for somebody to be devoted to him. And, like most people who possess this characteristic, he mistook it for an affectionate disposition.

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