Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes Quotations from Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Toms Cabin and other novels and books. Learn more: Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography   Selected Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotations The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it Women are the real architects of society. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. 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 I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesnt somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be. The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. Friendships are discovered rather than made. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Although mothers bodily presence disappeared from our circle, I think that her memory and example had more influence in molding her family, in deterring from evil and exciting to good, than the living presence of many mothers. It was a memory that met us everywhere; for every person in the town seemed to have been so impressed by her character and life that they constantly reflected some portion of it back upon us. Human nature is above all things lazy. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. Its a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. 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. What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. 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. I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacredthat 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. 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. 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. Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all, but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God, and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God. Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. 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. Home is a place not only of strong affections but of entire unreserve; it is lifes 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. A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, their music is sublimely strong. 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. From Dorothy Parker:The pure and worthy Mrs. StoweIs one we all are proud to knowAs mother, wife, and authoress Thank God, I am content with less! from the end of Uncle Toms Cabin: On the shores of our free states are emerging the poor, shattered, broken remnants of families,men and women, escaped, by miraculous providences, from the surges of slavery,feeble in knowledge, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from a system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christianity and morality. They come to seek a refuge among you; they come to seek education, knowledge, Christianity.What do you owe to these poor, unfortunates, O Christians? Does not every American Christian owe to the African race some effort at reparation for the wrongs that the American nation has brought upon them? Shall the doors of churches and school-houses be shut down upon them? Shall states arise and shake them out? Shall the Church of Christ hear in silence the taunt that is thrown at them, and shrink away from the helpless hand that they stretch out, and shrink away from the courage the cruelty that would chase them from our borders? If it must be so, it will be a mour nful spectacle. If it must be so, the country will have reason to tremble, when it remembers that fate of nations is in the hand of the One who is very pitiful, and of tender compassion. 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Present Simple Worksheets for ESL Students

Present Simple Worksheets for ESL Students The present simple takes the following forms: Present Simple Positive Form Review Subject present simple form of verb objects Examples: Alison often watches TV after dinner.They play golf on Saturdays. Present Simple Negative Form Subject do/does not verb objects Examples: Jack doesnt spend much time on reading.They dont eat meat on Fridays. Present Simple Question Form (Question Word) do/does subject verb? Examples: What do you do after work?How often do you eat out? Important Notes The verb to be does not take the auxiliary verb do in the question or negative form. Examples: She is a teacher.I am from Seattle.Are you married? Time Expressions With Present Simple Adverbs of Frequency The following adverbs of frequency are often used with the present simple to express how often someone does something habitually. Remember that present simple is used to express daily routines and habits. These adverbs of frequency are listed from most frequent to least frequent. Adverbs of frequency are placed directly before the main verb. alwaysusuallyoftensometimesoccasionallyrarelynever Days of the Week and Times of the Day Days of the week are often used with s to indicate that someone does something regularly on a specific day of the week. Times of the day are used to express when someone usually does something. Notice that at is used with night, but in with other periods during the day. Finally, at is used with specific times during the day. Examples: I play golf on Saturdays.She gets up early in the morning.Tom catches the bus at 7.30 a.m. Present Simple Worksheet 1 Conjugate the verb in parentheses  using the form  indicated. In the case of questions, use the indicated subject as well. I usually _____ (get up) at six oclock.How often _____ (she go) to the gym to workout?They _____ (be) from Holland.Jack _____ (not work) in the city.Where _____ (he live)?Alison _____ (visit) her friends on Saturdays.They _____ (not eat) meat on Fridays._____ (you play) tennis?Susan often _____ (drive) to the beach when the weather is nice.Eric _____ (not read) in Japanese.When _____ (she have) dinner?I _____ (take) a shower before I leave for work.How _____ (you start) this machine?He _____ (not work) on Sundays.Sharon rarely _____ (watch) TV.We occasionally _____ (take) the train to Seattle.Peter _____ (not like) buying food in supermarkets.Why _____ (they leave) work so late on Fridays?You sometimes _____ (do) housework._____ (she speak) Russian? Present Simple Worksheet 2 Choose the correct time expression used with the  present simple tense. I sleep in late on (Saturday / Saturdays).How (much / often) do you visit your friends in Chicago?Jennifer doesnt catch the bus (in/at) 8 in the morning.Henry enjoys playing golf (in/at) the afternoon.Do they eat fish (in/on) Fridays?I usually have my meetings (on/at) 10 am.Susan doesnt like going out (at/on) Fridays.Our class (usually/usual) takes tests on Tuesdays.The teacher gives us notes (after/while) class.Sharon doesnt go to be before 11 pm (in/at) night.Where do they usually hold meetings (at/in) the morning?Tom (rare/rarely) gets up early on Sundays.We dont enjoy eating breakfast before six (at/in) the morning.Our parents (occasion/occasionally) catch a train to the city.She doesnt use a computer (at/in) night.Alexander has lunch (on/at) noon.David doesnt work (at/on) Tuesdays.They listen to classical music (in/at) the afternoon.Mary answers her e-mail on (Friday/Fridays).How often do you travel (in/on) Tuesdays? Answer Keys Present Simple Worksheet 1 I usually  get up  at six oclock.How often  does she go  to the gym to workout?They  are  from Holland.Jack  doesnt work  in the city.Where  does he live?Alison  visits  her friends on Saturdays.They  dont eat  meat on Fridays.Do you play  tennis?Susan often  drives  to the beach when the weather is nice.Eric  doesnt read  in Japanese.When  does she have  dinner?I  take  a shower before I leave for work.How  do you start  this machine?He  doesnt work  on Sundays.Sharon rarely  watches  TV.We occasionally  take  the train to Seattle.Peter  doesnt like  buying food in supermarkets.Why  do they leave  work so late on Fridays?You sometimes  do  housework.Does she speak  Russian? Present Simple Worksheet 2 I sleep in late on  Saturdays.How  often  do you visit your friends in Chicago?Jennifer doesnt catch the bus  at  8 in the morning.Henry enjoys playing golf  in  the afternoon.Do they eat fish  on  Fridays?I usually have my meetings  at  10 am.Susan doesnt like going out  on  Fridays.Our class  usually  takes tests on Tuesdays.The teacher gives us notes  after  class.Sharon doesnt go to be before 11 pm  at  night.Where do they usually hold meetings  in  the morning?Tom  rarely  gets up early on Sundays.We dont enjoy eating breakfast before six  in  the morning.Our parents  occasionally  catch a train to the city.She doesnt use a computer  at  night.Alexander has lunch  at  noon.David doesnt work  on  Tuesdays.They listen to classical music  in  the afternoon.Mary answers her e-mail on  Fridays.How often do you travel  on  Tuesdays?