Hannah Webster Foster famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
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An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.
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Marriage is the tomb of friendship.
-- Hannah Webster Foster
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
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True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
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If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
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I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
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The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.
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The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.
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Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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