Elizabeth Carter quotes
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“Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.”
-- Elizabeth CarterSource : Elizabeth Carter, Montagu Pennington (1807). “Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter,: with a new edition of her poems, some of which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion”, p.465
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“Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.”
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“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”
-- Elizabeth CarterSource : Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259
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Source : "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.
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“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan
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Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan
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“I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass”
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