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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and a while find their way into the papers — such cases as Prue's, for example — what do they come from?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
'Cause I's wicked,—I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
A day of grace is yet held out to us.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
What can any individual do? Of that, every individual can judge. There is one thing that every individual can do, — they can see to it that they feel right.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
"Lor bless ye, yes! These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. Now, they say," said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, "that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" There is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard; but the bold, bad man heard it not. He woke with an oath and a curse. What to him was the gold and purple, the daily miracle of morning!
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. Such instances save us from utter despair of our kind. But, she asks any person, who knows the world, are such characters common, anywhere?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, — roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)