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When you get into a tight pla...

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 220 quotes

The bitterest tears shed over...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

In all ranks of life the huma...

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 220 quotes

Any mind that is capable of r...

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

One would like to be grand an...

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 220 quotes

Human nature is above all thi...

Human nature is above all things lazy.

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The obstinacy of cleverness a...

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

A man builds a house in Engla...

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 220 quotes

To be really great in little ...

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 220 quotes

Everyone confesses that exert...

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 220 quotes

Half the misery in the world ...

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Many a humble soul will be am...

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 220 quotes

he who has nothing to lose ca...

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

O, ye who visit the distresse...

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

Scenes of blood and cruelty a...

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

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

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'...

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

If you destroy delicacy and a...

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

If you were not already my de...

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 quotes

I am speaking now of the high...

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.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....