Anna Seward famous quotes

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
-- Anna Seward

#Being Happy #Let Me #Distinguished

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
-- Anna Seward

#Acquisition #Attention #Language

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
-- Anna Seward

#Records #Failing #Tenderness

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
-- Anna Seward

#Fate #Blessing #Soul

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
-- Anna Seward

#Girl #Drawing #Educate

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
-- Anna Seward

#Fading #Tides #Cold

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

If a guy was like, 'Let me serenade you,' and it was bad, and I had to lie about it - can't have it.

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.