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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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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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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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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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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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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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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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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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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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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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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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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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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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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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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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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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