Elizabeth Fry quotes
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“Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.”
-- Elizabeth FrySource : Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.307
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“When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.”
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“I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.”
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“I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.”
-- Elizabeth FrySource : "Elizabeth Fry: Life and Labors of the Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher and Prison Reformer".
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“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”
-- Elizabeth FrySource : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
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“The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.”
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“The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.”
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“It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted”
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“I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not”
-- Elizabeth FrySource : Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.86
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“Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.”
-- Elizabeth FrySource : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
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