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Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral. -- Catharine Beecher
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The physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced. -- Catharine Beecher
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The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock. -- Catharine Beecher
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Pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold. -- Catharine Beecher
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The school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful. -- Catharine Beecher
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All education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will. -- Catharine Beecher
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Any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves. -- Catharine Beecher
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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 Beecher
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Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex. -- Catharine Beecher
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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. -- Catharine Beecher
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The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. -- Catharine Beecher
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In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex. -- Catharine Beecher
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A large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities. -- Catharine Beecher
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We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE! -- Catharine Beecher
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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. -- Catharine Beecher
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. -- Catharine Beecher
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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 Beecher
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When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege. -- Catharine Beecher
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Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here ... in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England. -- Catharine Beecher
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The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ... -- Catharine Beecher
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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. -- Catharine Beecher
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It is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other. -- Catharine Beecher
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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. -- Catharine Beecher
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Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. -- Catharine Beecher
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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. -- Catharine Beecher
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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. -- Catharine Beecher
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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. -- Catharine Beecher
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To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be still more undervalued and shunned. -- Catharine Beecher
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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 Beecher