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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
Susanna Rowson
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But thou mayst grant this humble prayer,
Forget me not! forget me not!
Amelia Opie
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It was a day of gloom, and strange suspense,
And feverish, and inexplicable dread,
In Herculaneum's walls. The heavy, thick,
And torrid atmosphere; the solid, vast,
And strong—edg'd clouds, that through the firmament
In various and opposing courses moved:—
The wild scream of the solitary bird
That, at long intervals, flew terror-driven
On high:—the howling of the red-ey'd dog
As he gaz'd trembling on the angry heavens:-
The hollow moans that swept along the air,
Though every wind was lock'd,-portended all
That nature with some dire event was big,
And labour'd in its birth.
Edwin Atherstone
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I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions...
Elizabeth Inchbald
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The tranquil current of domestic happiness affords no materials for narrative.
Mary Brunton
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Those whom God wishes to show true favour
He sends out into the great wide world.
Joseph von Eichendorff
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For righteous monarchs,
Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;
To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.
Henry Brooke
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Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
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In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
Charlotte Turner Smith
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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
Hannah Webster Foster
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What whispers so strange at the hour of midnight, From the aspen leaves trembling so wildly? Why in the lone wood sings it sad, when the bright Full moon beams upon it so mildly?
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
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Nature is everywhere liberal in dispensing her beauties and her variety.
William Hill Brown
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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
Catharine Sedgwick
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None but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
Sophie von La Roche
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Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Regina Maria Roche
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Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.
Mary Hays
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To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.
Heinrich von Kleist
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
Alessandro Manzoni
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Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is everything and everything is nought.
Horace Smith
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He did not think, with the Caliph Omar Ben Adalaziz, that it was necessary to make a hell of this world to enjoy Paradise in the next.
William Thomas Beckford
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It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
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How little do they know human nature, who think they can say no to passion, so far shalt thou go, and no farther!
Sarah Scott
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Success, which is not always a proof of merit, depends more often on the choice of a subject than on its execution.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Only experience or example can rationally determine which way the heart should incline. Now experience is not an advantage that it is open to everyone to acquire, since it depends on the various situations in which, by chance, we find ourselves. For many people, then, this leaves only example that can offer any guidance as to how they should exercise virtue.
Antoine François Prévost
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