Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Ann Ward
Anne Radcliffe
Anne Ward
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Ann Ward
Mrs. Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
née Ward
Action
Real
Beneficence
World
Usefulness
Sentiment
Sentiments
Serving
Abstract
Worth
More quotes by Ann Radcliffe
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.
Ann Radcliffe
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Ann Radcliffe
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!
Ann Radcliffe
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
Ann Radcliffe
To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
Ann Radcliffe
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.
Ann Radcliffe
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.
Ann Radcliffe
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Ann Radcliffe
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
Ann Radcliffe
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
Ann Radcliffe
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
Ann Radcliffe
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
Ann Radcliffe
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?
Ann Radcliffe
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
Ann Radcliffe
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!
Ann Radcliffe
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
Ann Radcliffe
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!
Ann Radcliffe
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!
Ann Radcliffe
There is no accounting for tastes.
Ann Radcliffe
