Quotes by Jane Porter

Jane Porter

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

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Generous Spirit

Gratitude

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.

Humility

Revenge

Spring

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.

Beautiful

Heart

Mean

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Daring

Passionate

Shocking

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

Beautiful

Beauty

Ideas

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

Book

Summer

War

But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

May

Mind

Office

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Compulsion

Love

Yield

Don’t live to please others. Don’t think everyone else knows what’s right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

Matter

Self

Thinking

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

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Drs

Wisdom

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Quotes by Jane Porter

Jane Porter

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Don’t live to please others. Don’t think everyone else knows what’s right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

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