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.
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
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
Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins. - Augusta Jane Evans
Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun. - Augusta Jane Evans
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief! - Augusta Jane Evans
Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!
All things are dark to sorrow. - Augusta Jane Evans
All things are dark to sorrow.
Oh, Duty is an icy shadow! - Augusta Jane Evans
Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. - Augusta Jane Evans
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls. - Augusta Jane Evans
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.
Poetry is the purest form of insanity. - Augusta Jane Evans
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
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