Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• 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

  Compassion, Hands, Abuse

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

• O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Real, Compassion, Tears

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.90, Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Eye, Compassion, Sorrow

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1876). “Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm and the First Christmas of New England”, p.43, Library of Alexandria

• The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Kindness, Compassion, Joy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.35

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