Jane Porter Quotes

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• The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
• I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion…
• Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
• 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…
• 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…
• Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.
• The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
• Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon…
• Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.
• Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
• Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
• People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be…
• The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring…
• Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a…

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