The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason,… - Ann Radcliffe
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason,…
- Ann Radcliffe
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 sustai… - Ann Radcliffe
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 sustai…
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,… - Ann Radcliffe
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,…
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! - Ann Radcliffe
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. - Ann Radcliffe
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. - Ann Radcliffe
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishmen… - Ann Radcliffe
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishmen…
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one! - Ann Radcliffe
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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! - Ann Radcliffe
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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