Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
«If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Language,
Reading
| Keywords:
admitted, stress, their own language
«Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abuse, decline, dose, doses, laudanum, sensibilities, whipping
«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.»
«In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Human heart, ranks, yearns
«No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
godless, superstitious
«The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
internal, not long, rebellious, slight, subterranean, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«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 which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Family love,
Home
| Keywords:
affections, backroom, cast off, clothing, dressing, dressing room, dress rehearsal, go forth, intercourse, off guard, rehearsal, rehearsals, undress, undressed, undresses, undressing, unreserved
«One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
bores, everlasting, fashionable, heroic, stylish
«I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Motherhood,
Mothers,
Thought
| Keywords:
cries, elocutionist, rhetorician, rushes, Save the Children, teachings