Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes - Page 6

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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

  Writing, Men, History

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1873). “The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine”, p.165

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• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Music, Spiritual, Strong

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• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Faith, Literature, Heathen

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.199, Library of Alexandria

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• Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

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  Love, Summer, Flower

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• Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Wicked, Causes, Helping

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.455, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Thinking, Made

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• At last I have come into a dreamland.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Paris, Lasts, Dreamland

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.158

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• Rome is an astonishment!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Rome, Astonishment

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.234, Library of Alexandria

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

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  Soul, Calm, Christ

  "Life's Mystery". "The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song". Book by Charlotte Fiske Rogé, p. 544, 1882.

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• There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

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  Spring, Flower, Blessed

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.123, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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  Light, Shadow, Hardship

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.573, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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  Mother, Father, Dear

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

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  Best Effort, People, Mind

  "The Lady Who Does Her Own Work". The Atlantic Monthly, 1864.

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• the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

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  Hope, Joy, Tides

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.358, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

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  Sleep, Wish To Die, Remembrance

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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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  Ocean, Soul, Hammers

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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doe, Literature, Impossible

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 28, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• Women are the true modelers of social order.

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  Order, Social, Social Order

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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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  Eye, Self, Ignorant

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.162, Applewood Books

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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

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  Sublime, Mind, Steel

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

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  People, Intuition, Sensitive

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1856). “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”, p.33

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

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  Children, Men, America

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Complete)”, p.174, Library of Alexandria

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• Humankind above all is lazy.

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  Lazy, Humankind

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• One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

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  House, Males, Reform

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• Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

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  Growth, Cliffs, Crystals

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands”, p.150

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