Rachel Russell, Lady Russell Quote

Life is a continual labor checkered with care and pleasure, therefore rejoice in your portion — take the world as you find it, and you will, I trust, find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.


Letter to Lady Roos, 29th September 1695. In: Letters of Rachel, Lady Russell (ed. Parry and McMillan, 1854), p. 312


Life is a continual labor checkered with care and pleasure, therefore rejoice in your portion — take the world as you find it, and you will, I...

Life is a continual labor checkered with care and pleasure, therefore rejoice in your portion — take the world as you find it, and you will, I...

Life is a continual labor checkered with care and pleasure, therefore rejoice in your portion — take the world as you find it, and you will, I...

Life is a continual labor checkered with care and pleasure, therefore rejoice in your portion — take the world as you find it, and you will, I...