Hester Thrale Quotes

Hester Lynch Thrale was a Welsh-born diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century English life. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. January 1741 – 2. May 1821
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“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

Letter to Fanny Burney, November 12, 1781; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 82.

“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”

Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.

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