Catharine Sedgwick quotes
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“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.”
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“Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.”
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“A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.”
-- Catharine SedgwickSource : Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841). “Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home”, p.93
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“I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!”
-- Catharine SedgwickSource : Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405
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Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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“I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.”
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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
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