Ann Radcliffe Quotes
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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.
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Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
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But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
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He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
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Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
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There is no accounting for tastes.
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.
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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!
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