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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!”

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

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one’s fears.”

52. “When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one’s fears.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “Remember, too, that 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.”

53. “Remember, too, that 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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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.”

54. “There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “Her mind, long harassed by distress, now yielded to imaginary terrors.”

55. “Her mind, long harassed by distress, now yielded to imaginary terrors.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “It is well-known, that a weak mind, rather than have such a suffering, will turn aside, and take shelter in willing credulity to its first opinion; a strong one, meeting the worst at once, will proceed straight forward, and, freeing itself from an uncertainty, will do both that, which is just towards others, and, in the end, best for its own ease.”

56. “It is well-known, that a weak mind, rather than have such a suffering, will turn aside, and take shelter in willing credulity to its first opinion; a strong one, meeting the worst at once, will proceed straight forward, and, freeing itself from an uncertainty, will do both that, which is just towards others, and, in the end, best for its own ease.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “The loved idea of Angelo still rose upon my fancy, and its powers of captivation, heightened by absence, and, perhaps even by despair, pursued me with incessant grief. I concealed in silence the anguish that preyed upon my heart, and resigned myself a willing victim.”

57. “The loved idea of Angelo still rose upon my fancy, and its powers of captivation, heightened by absence, and, perhaps even by despair, pursued me with incessant grief. I concealed in silence the anguish that preyed upon my heart, and resigned myself a willing victim.”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “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!”

58. “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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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “My dear sir,’ said Emily, timidly, ‘what mean those tears?’ – they speak, I fear, another language – they plead for me.”

59. “My dear sir,’ said Emily, timidly, ‘what mean those tears?’ – they speak, I fear, another language – they plead for me.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.”

60. “Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.”

61. “Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.”

62. “There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for her exertions by again experiencing, that employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.”

63. “It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for her exertions by again experiencing, that employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “She immediately withdrew from the casement, and, though much agitated, sought in sleep the refreshment of a short oblivion.”

64. “She immediately withdrew from the casement, and, though much agitated, sought in sleep the refreshment of a short oblivion.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “A strange kind of presentiment frequently, on this day, occurred to her; – it seemed as if her fate rested here, and was by some invisible means connected with this castle.”

65. “A strange kind of presentiment frequently, on this day, occurred to her; – it seemed as if her fate rested here, and was by some invisible means connected with this castle.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “In death there is nothing new, or surprising, since we all know, that we are born to die; and nothing terrible to those, who can confide in an all-powerful God.”

66. “In death there is nothing new, or surprising, since we all know, that we are born to die; and nothing terrible to those, who can confide in an all-powerful God.”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “No existence is more contemptible than that, which is embittered by fear.”

67. “No existence is more contemptible than that, which is embittered by fear.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “She shrunk from the new scenes of misery and oppression, that might await her in the castle of Udolpho.”

68. “She shrunk from the new scenes of misery and oppression, that might await her in the castle of Udolpho.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “It is wrong to give way to grief.”

69. “It is wrong to give way to grief.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “The murmur of the limpid stream.”

70. “The murmur of the limpid stream.”

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Ann Radcliffe Quote: “This discourse, Count Morano, sufficiently proves, that my affections ought not to be yours,” said Emily, mildly, “and this conduct, that I should not be placed beyond the reach of oppression, so long as I remained in your power. If you wish me to believe otherwise, cease to oppress me any longer by your presence.”

71. “This discourse, Count Morano, sufficiently proves, that my affections ought not to be yours,” said Emily, mildly, “and this conduct, that I should not be placed beyond the reach of oppression, so long as I remained in your power. If you wish me to believe otherwise, cease to oppress me any longer by your presence.”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “O Emily! these are moments, in which joy and grief struggle so powerfully for pre-eminence, that the heart can scarcely support the contest!”

72. “O Emily! these are moments, in which joy and grief struggle so powerfully for pre-eminence, that the heart can scarcely support the contest!”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “Dear! Dear! To see how gentlefolks can afford to throw away their happiness! Now, if you were poor people, there would be none of this. To talk of unworthiness, and not caring about one another, when I know there are not such a kind-hearted lady and gentlemen in the whole province, nor any that love one another half so well, if truth was spoken!”

73. “Dear! Dear! To see how gentlefolks can afford to throw away their happiness! Now, if you were poor people, there would be none of this. To talk of unworthiness, and not caring about one another, when I know there are not such a kind-hearted lady and gentlemen in the whole province, nor any that love one another half so well, if truth was spoken!”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “A well-informed mind,′ he would say, ’is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”

74. “A well-informed mind,′ he would say, ’is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”

— Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe Quote: “And is it possible,’ said Emily, as these recollections returned – ’is it possible, that a mind, so susceptible of whatever is grand and beautiful, could stoop to low pursuits, and be subdued by frivolous temptations?”

75. “And is it possible,’ said Emily, as these recollections returned – ’is it possible, that a mind, so susceptible of whatever is grand and beautiful, could stoop to low pursuits, and be subdued by frivolous temptations?”

— Ann Radcliffe

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