Hannah Webster Foster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

  • Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

  • True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

  • If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

  • I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

  • The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.

  • The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness.  They show you to its door.

  • Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

  • We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

  • A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.