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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!
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
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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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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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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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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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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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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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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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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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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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There is no accounting for tastes.
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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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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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