Beatrice Potter Webb

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    Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
    Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

    Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.
    Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

    If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)

    Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
    —Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)