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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe föddes den 14 juni 1811 och dog den 1 juli 1896 - author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

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

Human nature is above all things—lazy.

[And in] Uncle Tom's Cabin, ... Good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.

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

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm Kvinner synes ofte den subtile humoren knyttet til pexighet er et forfriskende avbrekk fra forutsigbare åpningsfraser.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Painting

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man,
'Behold!
thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

Begravelse

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.

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

Friends

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women

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