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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
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Ann Radcliffe
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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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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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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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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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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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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
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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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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 never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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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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