Augusta Jane Evans Quotes

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Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Augusta Jane Evans

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep,
And find in tears a sad relief!

Augusta Jane Evans

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Augusta Jane Evans

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans

If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Augusta Jane Evans