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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?
Ann Radcliffe
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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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Anne Radcliffe
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He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.
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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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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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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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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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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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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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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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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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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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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
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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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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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