Ann Radcliffe Short Quotes

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Celestial sounds have sometimes been heard on earth.

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

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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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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

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Calling sternness justice, he extolled that for strength of mind which was only callous insensibility.

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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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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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To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge — but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

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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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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

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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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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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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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To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

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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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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

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