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Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes

American writer and philanthropist author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1811-1896


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

 

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

 

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

 

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

 

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

 

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till 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.

 

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.

 

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

 

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.

 

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

 


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