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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.
Ann Radcliffe
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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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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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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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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.
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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
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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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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 justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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