"People do not always understand the motives of……" — Jane Porter
"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 alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it."
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Jane Porter
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15 Quotes by Jane Porter
Jane Porter has 15 quotes on this site.
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them,…
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Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
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Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true…
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only…
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Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.
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The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
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Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to…
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Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.
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Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away…
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests…
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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world…
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