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the cleft of rock Neptune's
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(to C and R Da... SAIOM SHRIVER He has changed He has grown
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add another hue
unto the rainbow
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saffron and jade
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... S N SHRIVER The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr... MARIA MITCHELL I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ... MARIA MONK Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ... MARIA MONTESSORI Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se... MARIA MONTESSORI It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f... MARIA MONTESSORI The child who concentrates is immensely happy. MARIA MONTESSORI One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma... MARIA MONTESSORI The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,... MARIA MONTESSORI Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T... MARIA BARTIROMO It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe... 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 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... MARIA MONTESSORI The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict... MARIA MONTESSORI I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of sh... MARIA BAMFORD The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ... MARIA MONTESSORI I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a stor... MARIA SEMPLE Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry. MARIA CANTWELL At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs... MARIA MONTESSORI The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t... MARIA MONTESSORI If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l... MARIA MONTESSORI The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a ... MARIA MONTESSORI That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu... MARIA CALLAS We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce... MARIA MONTESSORI