Children Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

10 Children quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Stowe’s voice, steeped in 19th‑century reform, extends to the realm of childhood with a moral clarity that still feels urgent. These ten quotes give a concise look at her perspective on young lives amid societal change.

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Your little child is the only true democrat.

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Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed…

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the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where…

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I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom…

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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to…

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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we…

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When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,…

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“Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from…

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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

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

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Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers…

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God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

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

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from…

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness,…

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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

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We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful…

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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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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

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