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Letter "H" » Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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«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»
«A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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bring on, combining, millstone, North and South, saving grace
«Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically 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.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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abstract, confesses, exertion, general rule, practically
«I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.»
«What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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distinguished, saintliness, view as
«Human nature is above all things?lazy.»
«[And in] Uncle Tom's Cabin, ... Good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.»
«I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.»
«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.»
«Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm»
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