Charles Brockden Brown Quotes

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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

Charles Brockden Brown

Confide not in the firmness of your principles, or the steadfastness of your integrity. Be always vigilant and fearful. Never think you have enough of knowledge, and let not your caution slumber for a moment, for you know not when danger is near.

Charles Brockden Brown

I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, they must be broken. This scene of existence is, in all its parts, calamitous.

Charles Brockden Brown

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Brockden Brown

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Born: January 17, 1771

Died: February 22, 1810 (aged 39)

Bio: Charles Brockden Brown, an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.

Known for:

Edgar Huntly (1799)
Arthur Mervyn (1799)
Ormond; or, the Secret Witness (1799)
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

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