Elizabeth Charles Quotes

• To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Courage, Art, Men

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• When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Children, Father, Ears

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• The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Religion, Devil, Deals

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.226

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• But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Long, Way, Wealth

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.53

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• great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Discovery, Innovation, Everyday

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40

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• The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Religious, Devil, Saint

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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