Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes about Compassion

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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eye, Compassion, Sorrow

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1876). “Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm and the First Christmas of New England”, p.43, Library of Alexandria

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Compassion, Hands, Abuse

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Real, Compassion, Tears

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.90, Harriet Beecher Stowe