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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
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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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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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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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To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
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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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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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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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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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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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There is no accounting for tastes.
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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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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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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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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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