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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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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 is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.
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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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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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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!
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There is no accounting for tastes.
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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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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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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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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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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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