Quotes from Little Foxes — Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811–1896 United States
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Little Foxes (1865)
The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.
Little Foxes (1865)
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
Little Foxes (1865)
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
Little Foxes (1865)
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred — that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Little Foxes (1865)