Catharine Beecher Quotes

Catharine Beecher Quotes

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Quotes of Catharine Beecher
Total Quotes 36
It Is Thought That Potato Water Is Unhealthy; And Therefore Do Not Boil Potatoes In Soup, But Boil Elsewhere, And Add Them When Nearly Cooked.
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 It Loses Its Rank Smell And Taste.
The Tea-kettle Is As Much An English Institution As Aristocracy Or The Prayer-book.
... The History Of The Race, From Infancy Through Its Stages Of Barbarism, Heathenism, Civilization, And Christianity, Is A Process Of Suffering, As The Lower Principles Of Humanity Are Gradually Subjected To The Higher.
Good Manners Are The Expressions Of Benevolence In Personal Intercourse, By Which We Endeavor To Promote The Comfort And Enjoyment Of Others, And To Avoid All That Gives Needless Uneasiness.
... So Large A Portion Of Those Who Hold Much Capital, Instead Of Using Their Various Advantages For The Greatest Good Of Those Around Them, Employ The Chief Of Them For Mere Selfish Indulgences; Thus Inflicting As Much Mischief On Themselves, As Results To Others From Their Culpable Neglect. A Great Portion Of The Rich Seem To Be Acting On The Principle, That The More God Bestows On Them, The Less Are They Under Obligation To Practise Any Self-denial, In Fulfilling His Benevolent Plan Of Raising Our Race To Intelligence And Holiness.
The Delicate And Infirm Go For Sympathy, Not To The Well And Buoyant, But To Those Who Have Suffered Like Themselves.
As If Reasoning Were Any Kind Of Writing Or Talking Which Tends To Convince People That Some Doctrine Or Measure Is True And Right.
Unusual Precocity In Children, Is Usually The Result Of An Unhealthy State Of The Brain; And, In Such Cases, Medical Men Would Now Direct, That The Wonderful Child Should Be Deprived Of All Books And Study, And Turned To Play Or Work In The Fresh Air.
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 Sensibilities Of The Soul.
The People Of This Nation Are Eminently A Trafficking People; And The Present Standard Of Honesty, As To Trade And Debts, Is Very Low, And Every Year Seems Sinking Still Lower.
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 Care, Disappointment, And Sorrow, And Often Led To The Extremity Of Mental And Physical Suffering.
  • Born: September 6, 1800
  • Died: May 12, 1878