Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Human nature is above all things lazy.

The whole world is moved by love.

Faith is a kind of wing that lifts us above the low mists and clouds of our mortal experience.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Slavery is a curse to the master and a curse to the slave!

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

The soul awakes and struggles to find the only friend it has in the world.

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

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves.

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

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Justice is the fundamental law of society.

The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today.

There is one thing that every individual can do, they can see to it that they feel right.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that they love virtue, but in reality, they want to avoid suffering and inconvenience.

Women are the real architects of society.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to a master—so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the master involves them in the same slavery—so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

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.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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

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