Quotes by Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and 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.

Errors

Ideas

Thinking

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, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

Degrees

Evil

Feelings

But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,— O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

Guessing

Knowing

Matter

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

Believe

Heart

Suffering

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Employment

Negativity

Sorrow

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

Dark

Fate

Voice

He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.

Dark

Mirrors

Stars

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

Humanity

Might

Pity

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.

Affection

Doubt

Real

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge – but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Provoked

Revenge

Sweet

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Believe

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Dark

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Evil

Fate

Fear

Feelings

Guessing

Hands

Health

Heart

Humanity

Humble

Ideas

Inspirational

Justice

Knowing

Labor

Matter

Men

Might

Mind

Mirrors

Moving

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Night

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Ornaments

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People

Pity

Poverty

Prejudice

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Quotes by Ann Radcliffe

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, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,— O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.

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

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge – but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

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