SEDGWICK, Catharine Maria Quotes
(1789-1867), American author
Knowledge and goodness—these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
Talent and worth are the only eternal rounds of distinction.—To these the Almighty has affixed his everlasting patent of nobility, and these it is which make the bright immortal names to which our children, as well as others, may aspire.
It is the opinion of those who best understand the physical system, that if the physical laws were strictly observed from generation to generation, there would be an end to the frightful diseases that cut life short, and of the long list of maladies that make life a torment or a trial, and that this wonderful machine, the body,—this "goodly temple," would gradually decay, and men. would at last die as if gently falling asleep.
A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed his everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness—these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
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