Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."
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"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"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
"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"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
"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."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Human nature is above all things lazy."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"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
"Cause I's wicked - I is. I's mighty wicked anyhow I can't help it."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The past the present and the future are really one: they are today."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"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
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection. There is not on earth a more merciless extractor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she extracts love, to the uttermost farthing."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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