Sorrow Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

9 Sorrow quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s take on Sorrow is captured in nine short statements, each echoing her compassionate, reformist voice. The collection is modest but offers a quick, moral insight into her view of grief.

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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

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“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”

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The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

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Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

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There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the…

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I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice…

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Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself…

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“Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears,…

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What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the…

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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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