Harriet Beecher Stowe
American author and abolitionist, 1811-1896
10 quotes.
Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Friendships are discovered rather than made.
- Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.
- Never get discouraged at difficulties... When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.
- Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer.
- Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
- The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
- To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.