A Quote from Catharine Beecher
A deceptively simple quote from Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and author of A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School (1841):
"There is nothing, which so distinctly marks the difference between weak and strong minds, as the fact, whether they control circumstances, or circumstances control them."
"There is nothing, which so distinctly marks the difference between weak and strong minds, as the fact, whether they control circumstances, or circumstances control them."
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