Favorite Qoutes of Harriet Beecher Stowe
I finished reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, and next to Of Mice and Men, this is by far one of my favorite books. I love the way she gave her characters depth and personality...anyways, she has a niche for wording things just the right way. Here are some of my favorite qoutes from the book (although there was many more!):“ Ye who have wondered to hear, in the same evangel, that God is love, and that God is a consuming fire, se ye not how, to the resolved in evil, perfect love is the most fearful torture, the seal and sentence of the direst despair.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Oh, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to insensate man, ‘Behold! Thou has one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!’”—Harriet Beecher Stowe
“They say the alligator, the rhinoceros, though inclosed in bullet-proof mail, have each a spot where they are vulnerable; and fierce, reckless, unbelieving reprobates have commonly this point in superstitious dread.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Oh, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consist of lying on the sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.”—Augustine St. Claire
“…Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in!” --Ophelia St. Claire
“For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It’s pretty generally understood that men don’t aspire to do the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.” –Augustine St. Claire
“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on!” –Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Dar an’t no sayin,” said Sam; “gals is peculiar; they never does nothin’ ye thinks they will; mose gen’lly the contrar. Gals is nat’lly made contrary; and so, if you thinks they’ve gone one road, it is sartin you’d better go t’ other, and then you’ ll be sure to find ‘em. Now, my private ‘pinion is, Lizy took der dirt road; so I think we ‘d better take de straight one.” –Sam (a 12 years old boy who’s precociousness has led him to a rather apocryphal generalization at such a young age. Now the validity to the generalization is, I'm sure some might say, disputable. I thought it was a little amusing.)
P.S.-excuse the nerdiness this time around.
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