• 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.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  American Novelist 1811-1896
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. distinguished
2. magnanimity
3. greatness
4. certain
5. quality
6. brings

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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. by : Harriet Beecher Stowe

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