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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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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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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 magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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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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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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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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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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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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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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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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