Catharine Sedgwick Quotes

• Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Animal, Weakness, Instinct

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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.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Heaven, Democracy, Patents

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• A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Attitude, Manners, Company

  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 Sedgwick

  Children, Writing, Eden

  Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405

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