Hannah Webster Foster Quotes

• It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Fortitude, Sinking, Difficulty

  Hannah Webster Foster (2015). “The Coquette: or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, p.93, Courier Dover Publications

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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.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Women, Home, Leaving

  William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin

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• Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Tombs

  Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34

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