(47 quotes found)
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Friendships are discovered rather than made.”
“The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone”
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women”
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”
