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It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
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
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Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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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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National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
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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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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 doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
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In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
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Compulsion hardly restores right love yields all things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
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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.
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Love is full of imagination.
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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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