Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest the future, not the past
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So when the great word Mother rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.Charlotte Gilman
Habits of thought persist through the centuries and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
Charlotte Gilman
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
Charlotte Gilman
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle.
Charlotte Gilman
But there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing.
Charlotte Gilman
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Gilman
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