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Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe on hope

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XL

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