Harriet Beecher Stowe famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Encouraging

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Giving #Truth Is #Ends

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

#Morning #Optimistic #Night

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.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Greatness #Views #Circles

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Relationship #Sympathy #Spiritual

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Heart #Blood #Giving

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Real #Heart #People

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Essence #Abuse #Slavery

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Doubt #Faces #Firsts

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Motivational #Men #New Day

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Inspirational #Sweet #Prayer

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

#Strong #Home #Rehearsal

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Love #Sake #Immortal

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Past #Reality #Today

Friendships are discovered rather than made.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Made

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Moving #Sleep #Reality

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Common Sense #Common

Human nature is above all things lazy.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Lazy #Literature #Laziness

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Real #Condolences #Mind

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #God

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Mothers Day #Mom #Philosopher

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Men #World #Wells

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Spring #Blessed #Flower

Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Angel #Age #May

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Father #Animal #Dumb

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Past #Strange #Sometimes

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Beautiful #Love Is #Very Sad

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Beautiful #Forever #One Day

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - 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, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Stress #Teaching #Flower

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Mom #Prayer #Struggle

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.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Light #Sharks #Missionary

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Beautiful #Heart #Law

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Too Much #Helping #Honestly

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Writing #Agency #Evil

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Uncles #Inspiration #Writing

In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

#Coffee #Mean #Vegetables