Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Grace, Lines, Boundaries

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.240

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• The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Past, Two, Soul

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.236, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

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  Jealous, Reflection, Self

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.77

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• Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong Women, Real, Empowering

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• The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, World, Steps

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1871). “My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History”, p.74

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• What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, Voice, Mountain

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

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  Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

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  Sweet, Heart, Sunset

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Toms Cabin: Life Among the Lowly: Easyread Large Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

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  Mother, Giving, Good Man

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.93, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

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  Children, Growing Up, Grows

  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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• There are griefs which grow with years.

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  Grief, Years, Grows

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.298, Applewood Books

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• The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

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  Self, Inquiry, Patient

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Edward Stowe (1889). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled from Her Letters and Journals”

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

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  Heart, World, Human Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.354, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

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  Sick, Needs, Rooms

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.406, Applewood Books

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• We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

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  Heart, Kind Deeds, Long

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.60

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

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  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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• Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

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  Strong, Prayer, Long

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.205, Applewood Books

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• Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

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  Each New Day, Chance, Glory

  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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• God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

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  Eye, Land, Tears

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• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

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  Cute, Everyday, Excellence

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

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  Past, Strange, Sometimes

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.440, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Human nature is above all things lazy.

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  Lazy, Literature, Laziness

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.561, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, God

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

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  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• ...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

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  Heart, Blood, Giving

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.36, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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