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Jane Porter Inspirational Quotes (39)

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The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.
Jane Porter
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A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.
Jane Porter
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Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
Janet Street-Porter
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The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Jane Porter
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
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Compulsion hardly restores right love yields all things.
Jane Porter
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.
Jane Porter
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The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
Jane Porter
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It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
Jane Porter
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Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.
Janet Street-Porter
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However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.
Jane Porter
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Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
Jane Porter
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Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
Jane Porter
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Virtue is despotic life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands and is the only sure defence of happiness.
Jane Porter
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Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.
Jane Porter
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