The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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Thomas Fuller
When a man's willing and eager God joins in.
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Aeschylus
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
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T. S. Eliot
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
More Quotes By Harriet Beecher Stowe
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is...
Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!
For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in...
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.
