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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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
Mrs. Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
née Ward
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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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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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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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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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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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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
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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.
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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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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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