Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist, best known for her influential novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Her work raised awareness about the cruelties of slavery and fueled the anti-slavery movement in the United States. She became an important figure in American literature and the fight for social justice. Here are 105 of her quotes:

Women are the real architects of society. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. View quote
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? View quote
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. View quote
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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. View quote
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. View quote
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A woman's health is her capital. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. View quote
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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. View quote
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. View quote
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. View quote
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Human nature is above all things lazy. View quote
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. View quote
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. View quote
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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. quoted by Og Mandino. View quote
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. View quote
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. View quote
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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. View quote
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Image
Occupation: American Abolitionist
Born: June 14, 1811
Died: July 1, 1896
Quotes count: 105
Wikipedia: Harriet Beecher Stowe

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