Catherine Crowe Professions : Novelist Born : 1803 Died : 1876 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Catherine Crowe A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. Catherine Crowe unfaithful age impossible I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh. Catherine Crowe would-be ideas thinking What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. Catherine Crowe men heaven past The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it. Catherine Crowe understanding believe children Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
