Elizabeth Carter quotes

“Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.”
-- Elizabeth Carter

Source : 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.”
-- Elizabeth Carter

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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 Carter

Source : Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259

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“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”

Source : "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.

“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

“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”

“The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

“Remember you love writing.  It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t.  If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,”

“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”

“I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass”

“In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.”

“Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?”