Sophia Lee quotes

“Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.”
-- Sophia Lee

#Hope Quotes

“Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...”
-- Sophia Lee

Source : Sophia Lee (1804). “The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times ...”, p.18

#Greed Quotes #Vices Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?”
-- Sophia Lee

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.128, University Press of Kentucky

#Prayer Quotes #Immortal Quotes

“How we are born to invent our own miseries!”
-- Sophia Lee

#Misery Quotes #Born Quotes

“Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.”
-- Sophia Lee

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.275, University Press of Kentucky

#Winning Quotes #Benevolence Quotes #Awe Quotes

“Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.”
-- Sophia Lee

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.306, University Press of Kentucky

#Errors Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Source Quotes

“How easy it is to be unknown!”
-- Sophia Lee

Source : Sophia Lee (1804). “The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times”, p.99

#Easy Quotes

“Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.”
-- Sophia Lee

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.97, University Press of Kentucky

#Blessing Quotes #Evil Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.”

Source : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.19, Lulu.com

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”

“School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.”

“Hopeful men do not die so easily ...”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”

“Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.”