FastSaying

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.

Catharine Esther Beecher

Related Quotes

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.
— Catharine Esther Beecher
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
— Catharine Esther Beecher
Miscellaneous
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.
— Catharine Esther Beecher
Miscellaneous
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
— Catharine Esther Beecher
Miscellaneous
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
— Catharine Esther Beecher