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1. "Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. "Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
4. "Friendships are discovered rather than made." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. "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." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. "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." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. "Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. "One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
9. "A woman's health is her capital." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
11. "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
12. "Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but 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." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. "The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
14. "Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
15. "I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people'sglass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
16. "I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. "Humankind above all is lazy." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. "I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. "George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
20. "Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
21. "Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! You heard her offering to take care of me nights, to let Mammy sleep! That's just a specimen of the way the child would be doing all the time, if she was left to herself." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
22. "abolitionist" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
23. "apocryphally" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
24. "hitherto" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
25. "quadroon" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
26. "attributed" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
27. "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." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
28. "Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
29. "In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not. It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homewoard flight. When you see that deep, spiritual light in the eye,---when the little soul reveals itself in words sweeter and wiser than the ordinary words of children,---hope not to retain that child, for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortality looks out from its eyes." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. "But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
31. "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 tempest dieth,And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flieth,Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.So to the heart that knows Thy love, O Purest,There is a temple sacred evermore,And all the babble of life's angry voicesDies in hushed silence at its peaceful door.Far, far away, the roar of passion dieth,And loving thoughts rise calm and peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flieth,Disturbs the soul that dwells, O Lord, in Thee." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
32. "Tom opened his eyes, and looked upon his master. "Ye poor miserable critter!" he said, "there ain't no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul!" and he fainted entirely away." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
33. "O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs. -Augustine St. Clare" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
34. "...for twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;--headaches and heartaches innumerable had been cured there,--difficulties spritual and temporal solved there,--all by one good, loving woman, God bless her!" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
35. "The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
36. "approaching" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
37. "is God's curse on slavery!—a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!—a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
38. "If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, - if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly considerations have gone down like drift-wood before a river flooded with new rain from heaven, so that you even forgot yourself, and were ready to cast your whole being into the chasm of existence, as an offering before the feet of another, and all for nothing, - if you awoke bitterly betrayed and deceived, still give thanks to God that you have had one glimpse of heaven. The door now shut will open again. Rejoice that the noblest capability of your eternal inheritance has been made known to you; treasure it, as the highest honor of your being, that ever you could so feel, -that so divine a guest ever possessed your soul." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
39. "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." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
40. "«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.»" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
41. "He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat;—so I don't believe, because I was born a democrat." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
42. "Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of your dying babe; for, sir, he was a man, and you are but another man; and, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow!" ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
43. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
44. "So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
45. "The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
46. "Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
47. "The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
48. "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." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
49. "What's your hurry?"Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
50. "So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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