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„Ja tego nie napisałam. Napisał to Bóg. Ja tylko pozwoliłam sobie dyktować.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Źródło: przedmowa do Chaty wuja Toma, cyt. za: Timothy Perry, Harriet Beecher Stowe [w:] 501 wielkich pisarzy pod red. Juliana Patricka, tłum. Hanna Pawlikowska-Gannon, Julita Degórska, Małgorzata Koenig, wyd. MWK, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 9788361095333, s. 160.

O Bogu

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Cytaty po angielsku

“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

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Attributed

“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“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.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“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!”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

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The Minister's Wooing (1859) Ch. 21 The Bruised Flax-Flower

“I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin

“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!”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 36 Emmeline and Cassy
Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

“A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.”

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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854).

“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”

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Part 2, Ch. 2.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)

“In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.”

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The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).

“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 39 The Stratagem

“I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and broken-hearted, with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity — because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath.
It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed — who cannot speak for themselves.”

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On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Lord Denman (20 January 1853).

“Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.”

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Part 2, Ch. 4.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)

“The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.”

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Źródło: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 4.

“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.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Źródło: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40.

“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.”

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"Dress, or Who Makes the Fashions" in The Atlantic Monthly (1864).

“Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light…”

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Part 2, Ch. 4.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)

“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.”

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Źródło: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 1.

“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.”

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Źródło: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 4.

“In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea — by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.”

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Źródło: Household Papers and Stories (1864), Ch. 10.

“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.”

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"The Cathedral" in The Atlantic Monthly (1846). *How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace. Christians in whom these dispositions are once firmly fixed, go on calmly as the sleeping infant borne in the arms of its mother. Christ reminds them of every duty in its time and place—reproves them for every error—counsels them in every difficulty, excites them to every needful activity. In spiritual, as in temporal matters, they take no thought for the morrow—for they know that Christ will be as accessible tomorrow as to-day, and that time imposes no barrier on his love. Their hope and trust rest solely on what he is willing and able to do for them; on nothing that they suppose themselves able and willing to do for him.
How To Live On Christ https://www.path2prayer.com/famous-christians-their-lives-and-writings-including-free-books/j-hudson-taylor-pioneer-missionary-to-china/harriet-beecher-stowe-how-to-live-on-christ; From Harriet Beecher Stowe's Introduction to Christopher Dean’s Religion as it Should Be, or, The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck

“The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Old Town Folks

Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 2.

“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”

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Attributed

“That the tragical fate of Tom, also, has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses, all over our land, to testify. Let it be remembered that in all southern states it is a principle of jurisprudence that no person of colored lineage can testify in a suit against a white, and it will be easy to see that such a case may occur, wherever there is a man whose passions outweigh his interests, and a slave who has manhood or principle enough to resist his will. There is, actually, nothing to protect the slave's life, but the character of the master. Facts too shocking to be contemplated occasionally force their way to the public ear, and the comment that one often hears made on them is more shocking than the thing itself. It is said, "Very likely such cases may now and then occur, but they are no sample of general practice." If the laws of New England were so arranged that a master could now and then torture an apprentice to death, would it be received with equal composure? Would it be said, "These cases are rare, and no samples of general practice"? This injustice is an inherent one in the slave system, — it cannot exist without it.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe książka Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Concluding Remarks

“Not only was he ignorant, but he had not even those conditions within himself which made knowledge possible. All that there was developed of him, at present, was a fund of energy, self-esteem, hope, courage, and daring, the love of action, life, and adventure; his life was in the outward and present, not in the inward and reflective; he was a true ten-year old boy, in its healthiest and most animal perfection. What she was, the small pearl with the golden hair, with her frail and high-strung organization, her sensitive nerves, her half-spiritual fibres, her ponderings, and marvels, and dreams, her power of love, and yearning for self-devotion, our readers may, perhaps, have seen. But if ever two children, or two grown people, thus organized, are thrown into intimate relations, it follows, from the very laws of their being, that one must hurt the other, simply by being itself; one must always hunger for what the other has not to give.”

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The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862) Online scans http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa&idno=AAN5549.0001.001&view=toc at the Making of America project.