Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
"Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe" was an American Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the Northern United States/American North, while provoking widespread anger in the Southern United States/South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn.
Liberty!--Electric word! What is it? Is there anything more in it than a name--a rhetorical flourish? Why, men and women of America, does your hearts blood thrill at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die? Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man?
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn.
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.
Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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