"Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which……" — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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97 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary…
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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many…
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great…
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,…
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once…
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of…
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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you…
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of…
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Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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