Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe

14-Jun-1811


United States


Author

Harriet Beecher was a leading Catholic minister and patriarch of a socially committed family. Stowe gained national fame for his anti-slavery letter, Tom's uncle, which destroyed the flames of engagement before the Civil War. Stowe died in Hartford, Connecticut, July 1, 1896.

QUOTES BY Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe


"The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning."

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

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."

"...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."

"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."

"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end."

"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."

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

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

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