Catharine Beecher Quotes

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• The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and…
• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of…
• To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be…
• If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if…
• Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the…
• As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
• The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
• As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest…
• The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

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