Mary Catherwood Quotes

• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

  Mary Catherwood

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

  Mary Catherwood

  Inspirational, Half, Hours

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.105, tredition

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• There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

  Mary Catherwood

  Thinking, Righteousness, Terrible

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1901). “Lazarre”

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• There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

  Mary Catherwood

  Mother, Men, Giving

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• The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

  Mary Catherwood

  Endurance, Stoicism

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.344, tredition

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• To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

  Mary Catherwood

  Believe, Acceptance, Men

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.187, tredition

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• The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.

  Mary Catherwood

  Prayer, Catholic, Church

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• We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

  Mary Catherwood

  Expression, May, Dear

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.286, tredition

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• What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

  Mary Catherwood

  Suffering, Priceless

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.292, tredition

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• Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

  Mary Catherwood

  Loss, Density, Denial

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.307, tredition

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• People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

  Mary Catherwood

  People, Doubt, Persons

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.368, tredition

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• One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

  Mary Catherwood

  Wakes You, Vivid, Eternity

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.352, tredition

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