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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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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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Ann Ward
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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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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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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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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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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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There is no accounting for tastes.
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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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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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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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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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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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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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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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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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