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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
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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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The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.
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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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The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
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Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.
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That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
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The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
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A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.
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Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.
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Compulsion hardly restores right love yields all things.
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Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
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We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!
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How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.
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The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.
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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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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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Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness but distrust, if it do not produce treachery never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.
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National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
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It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
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