“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.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe , book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 7.

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Abolitionist, author 1811–1896

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