Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A woman's health is her capital.

A woman's health is her capital.

- 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

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

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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