Edith Cavell's Profile
Brief about Edith Cavell: By info that we know Edith Cavell was born at 1970-01-01. And also Edith Cavell is American Public Servant.
Some Edith Cavell's quotes. Goto "Edith Cavell's quotation" section for more.I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Tags: Bitterness, Enough, PatriotismA rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Tags: Cruel, Nature, RudeBut if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
Tags: Place, Sex, WordsAs for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Tags: Decency, Necessity, PleasureFor disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Tags: Life, Senses, TrueFor Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Tags: Delight, Peace, PleasureIndeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Tags: Idiot, Indeed, WitNot that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Tags: Body, Mind, NatureAnd not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Tags: Children, Law, YoungAnd though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Tags: Honest, Living, SaidAnd though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
Tags: Friendship, Him, LostAs for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
Tags: Gay, Mother, RichFirst, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
Tags: Born, Men, WomenFor I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
Tags: Gave, Hopes, LordIn such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Tags: Help, Mother, ThoughtIndeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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