The quotations of

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American abolitionist and author

1811–1896

13 quotes, most often on Good & Evil, Hope and Slavery.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
- Life & Death
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Household Papers and Stories (1864), Part 2, Ch. 4.
- Love
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don’t doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men’s.
The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).
- Women
- Writing
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide ‘ll turn.
Oldtown Folks (1869), Ch. 39
- Hope
- Motivation & Goals
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXIn context
- Slavery
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Emotion
- Good & Evil
It is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXIXIn context
- Power
- Slavery
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXXIXIn context
- Religion
The longest way must have its close,⁠—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XLIn context
- Hope
- Justice
There is one thing that every individual can do,⁠—they can see to it that they feel right.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XLVIn context
- Morality
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume I, Chapter VIIIn context
- Courage
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXXVIIIIn context
- Ideas

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