Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never give up, 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.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A woman's health is her capital.

A woman's health is her capital.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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