Hannah Webster Foster quotes
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“It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.”
-- Hannah Webster FosterSource : Hannah Webster Foster (2015). “The Coquette: or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, p.93, Courier Dover Publications
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“An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.”
-- Hannah Webster FosterSource : William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin
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“Marriage is the tomb of friendship.”
-- Hannah Webster FosterSource : Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34
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“Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.”
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“Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.”
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“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking”
Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Source : Robyn Davidson (1992). “From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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“The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.”
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“The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.”
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“We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.”
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