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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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
Anne Ward
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Ann Ward
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Ann Radcliffe
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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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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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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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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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
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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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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!
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