The Education of Catholic Girls
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“Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.”
“it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.”
“Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.”
Source: The Education of Catholic Girls
Source: The Education of Catholic Girls
“Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?”
“The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.”
“We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.”
“We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.”
“It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.”
“To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.”
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”
“It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.”
“All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.”
“In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.”
“We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.”
“There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.”