Author: Ellen Swallow Richards

Quotes

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

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