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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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Ann Ward
Anne Radcliffe
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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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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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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.
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