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What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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
Anne Radcliffe
Anne Ward
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Ann Ward
Mrs. Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
née Ward
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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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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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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
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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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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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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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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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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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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 are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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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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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
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