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If we let our friend become co...

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

...it is impossible to make an...

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

When I have been travelling up...

When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Friendships are discovered rat...

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

God washes the eyes by tears u...

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

I wrote what I did because as ...

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

I did not write it (Uncle Tom'...

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

The power of fictitious writin...

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

At last I have come into a dre...

At last I have come into a dreamland...

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

A cook she certainly was, in t...

A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

There are griefs which grow wi...

There are griefs which grow with years.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Let us never doubt everything ...

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Fanaticism is governed by imag...

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's ...

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

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The Negro is an exotic of the ...

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 220 quotes

The hand of benevolence is eve...

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

It is one mark of a superior m...

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Cathedrals do not seem to me t...

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

A ship is a beauty and a myste...

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

No ornament of a house can com...

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

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