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Life is a warfare and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Jane Porter

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Jane Porter
Age: 74 †
Born: 1776
Born: January 17
Died: 1850
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Durham
England
Easily
Warfare
Rules
Betray
Property
Rejects
Despondency
Duty
Providence
Dauntless
Universe
Double
Betrays
Men
Resolution
Deserts
Life
Guides
Noblest
Desert
Gracious

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.
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Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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Virtue is despotic life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands and is the only sure defence of happiness.
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In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
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However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.
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If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.
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Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.
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none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
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