Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, was born on this date in 1811. Here are some of the things that she said.
- When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
- 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.
- Friendships are discovered rather than made.
- 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.
- Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
- To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavour than to do uncommon things respectably.
- The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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