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• People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

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  Hate, People, Trouble

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1875). “We and Our Neighbors: Or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street: (Sequel to "My Wife and I.") A Novel”, p.161

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• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Philosopher

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.176, Library of Alexandria

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• A woman's health is her capital.

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  Fitness Motivational, Women's Health, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.126

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• It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

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  Appreciation, Intelligence, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.46

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• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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  Clever, Literature, Reason

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

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• General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

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  Bears, Cases, Particular

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.206, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

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  Beautiful, Love Is, Very Sad

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Illustrated)”, p.1415, Delphi Classics

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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. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

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  Prayer, Giving Up, Mean

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

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  Falling In Love, Husband, Love You

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.79, Library of Alexandria

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• How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

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  Christian, Struggle, Effort

  "The Cathedral". The Atlantic Monthly, 1846.

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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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  Freedom, Responsibility, Self

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• Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

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  Imagination, Judgment, Fanaticism

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• 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!

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  Motivational, Men, New Day

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.346, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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.

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  Compassion, Hands, Abuse

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

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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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  Heart, Men, Blood

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.378, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

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  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

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  Wake Up, Womans Day, International Women Day

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Howard (earl of Carlisle) (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.90

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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? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

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  Selfish, Men, Church

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.265, Applewood Books

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• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

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  Peace, Ocean, Wind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.325

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• I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

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  Doubt, Faces, Firsts

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.247, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

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  Mother, Children, Teaching

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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• The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

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  Time, Morning, Night

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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.

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  Moving, Sleep, Reality

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.402, Electric Book Company

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• By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

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  Law, Ideas, Feet

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.364, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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