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Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.


Maria Monk

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MARIA MONTESSORI What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m...
MARIA MONTESSORI I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
MARIA SEMPLE So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
MARIA MENOUNOS I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person...
MARIA SHRIVER Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl...
MARIA BARTIROMO Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff...
MARIA MONTESSORI If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God. Keep me on a short leash.
MARIA SC Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
MARIA ROBINSON Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...
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