Elizabeth Carter Professions : PoetBorn : December 16, 1717Died : February 19, 1806 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Elizabeth Carter Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. Elizabeth Carter gratitudegratefulhappiness 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 disciplinesufferingheart 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 vicespridereal Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
