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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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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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Calling sternness justice, he extolled that for strength of mind which was only callous insensibility.
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Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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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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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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And only if I have cause of complaint, holy father? Are strong truths to be told only when there is direct cause of complaint? Is it only when we are injured that we are to be sincere?
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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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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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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!
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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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He was declaring the ardour of his passion in such terms as but too often make vehemence pass for sincerity.
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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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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Celestial sounds have sometimes been heard on earth.
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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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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,
And as the portal opens to receive me,
A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts
Tells of a nameless deed.
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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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Born:
July 9, 1764
Died:
February 7, 1823
(aged 58)
Bio:
Ann Radcliffe was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural.
Known for:
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Part II) (Dodo Press) (1794)
The Italian (1797)
The Romance of the Forest (1791)
A Sicilian Romance (1792)
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789)
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