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


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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing t...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a st...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eatin...
GEORGE ELIOT [Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So thi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There’s no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe�...
THOMAS A. SHIPPEY Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting p...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A woman's health is her capital.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the bea...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children;...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectabl...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Human nature is above all things lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Friendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God mak...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be ver...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cri...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not ho...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, ine...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of kee...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitte...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehears...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could no...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake,...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean
And billows wild contend with angry roar,
'Tis said...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could n...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God m...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE One day we were brought into the world, knowing love only as being what we had for our toys, family,...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could n...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Humankind above all is lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do abou...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, th...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit ev...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the tea...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE You've always stood it out again' me: now, I'll conquer ye, or kill ye!—one or t' other. I'll coun...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inex...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate m...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Human nature is above all things—lazy.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Chri...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have alwa...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels s...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ¡Ay, ese niño, cuánto lo quería! ¡Se parecía muchísimo a mi pobre Henry! ¡Pero había decidi...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children;...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of kee...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehear...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE [And in] Uncle Tom's Cabin, ... Good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and p...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ...While politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE When our time comes to check out of this world we will regret a thousand thousand times the good dee...
TONY BRADY Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest re...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my &#...
DEBBIE MACOMBER Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the h...
HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE 'Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE What is freedom to that young man, who sits there, with his arms folded over his broad chest, the ti...
HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER When words are all you have, much gets left unsaid...
BJ MORIN There are no words for this. I have only tears left.
MANUEL GONZALEZ

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HARRIET HARMAN I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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HARRIET TUBMAN Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMAN Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you ca...
HARRIET TUBMAN Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watchin...
HARRIET TUBMAN I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me...
HARRIET TUBMAN 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much...
HARRIET TUBMAN I can't die but once.
HARRIET TUBMAN Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
HARRIET TUBMAN I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the L...
HARRIET TUBMAN I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts u...
HARRIET TUBMAN Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love...
HARRIET MARTINEAU But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individua...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
HARRIET MARTINEAU Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; ...
HARRIET TUBMAN I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welco...
HARRIET TUBMAN Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the sta...
HARRIET TUBMAN Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than pray...
HARRIET ROCHLIN Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
HARRIET ROSENSTEIN Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
HARRIET BRAIKER For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
HARRIET MARTINEAU What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and whi...
HARRIET MARTINEAU I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the...
HARRIET TUBMAN There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
HARRIET MARTINEAU Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where t...
HARRIET TUBMAN I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors ...
HARRIET TUBMAN I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; ...
HARRIET TUBMAN As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ...
HARRIET TUBMAN I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my...
HARRIET TUBMAN Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped...
HARRIET TUBMAN I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMAN I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was...
HARRIET TUBMAN Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places ...
HARRIET TUBMAN There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality...
HARRIET HARMAN Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to...
HARRIET EVANS I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't ...
HARRIET TUBMAN I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
HARRIET MARTINEAU In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fiel...
HARRIET TUBMAN I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it...
HARRIET TUBMAN I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear ...
HARRIET WALTER Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising.
HARRIET BRAIKER Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
HARRIET BRAIKER Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at al...
HARRIET LERNER You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
HARRIET WOODS If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov...
HARRIET MARTINEAU You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure prepara...
HARRIET MARTINEAU You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre...
HARRIET MARTINEAU I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are
HARRIET MARTINEAU I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need ...
HARRIET WALTER The administrative suspension was lifted as soon as my dues were received.
HARRIET MIERS We needed to encourage additional African-American, Mexican-American representation on the council.
HARRIET MIERS I believe employers should be able to pick the best qualified for any position to be filled consider...
HARRIET MIERS I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS Obviously, we evaluated that this was the right time to settle and to resolve this matter and that i...
HARRIET MIERS I truly believe if the governor told her she should be an Astronaut, she would do her best to become...
HARRIET MIERS The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to...
HARRIET LERNER