O, that’s what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain, – never suffer anything, – not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives, – it seems selfish. I ought to know such things, I ought to feel about them!

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cause I’s wicked, – I is. I’s mighty wicked, anyhow, I can’t help it.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Self respect is impossible without liberty...

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity – because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are griefs which grow with years.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

At last I have come into a dreamland...

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women’s Day Women are the real architects of society.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women are the true modelers of social order.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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