Top 3 Quotes by Elizabeth Carter

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

Elizabeth Carter, Montagu Pennington (1807). “Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter,: with a new edition of her poems, some of which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion”, p.465

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

Elizabeth Carter

Real, Pride, Vices

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

Elizabeth Carter

Heart, Discipline, Suffering

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259