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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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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
Health
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Disappointment
Soul
Luxury
Integrity
Despair
Afflicted
Conscience
Sufferings
Poverty
Grandeur
Pure
Anguish

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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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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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 is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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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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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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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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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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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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