Anna Seward quotes
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“Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.”
-- Anna SewardSource : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.73
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“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 SewardSource : Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13
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“Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.”
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“Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.”
-- Anna SewardSource : Anna SEWARD (1799). “Original Sonnets, on various subjects; and Odes paraphrased from Horace, by Anna Seward. Second edition”, p.14
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“If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.”
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“Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.”
-- Anna SewardSource : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.82
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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.”
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“The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.”
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“Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.”
Source : 'The Iliad' bk. 6, l. 208
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“Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.”
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