"The best manner of avenging ourselves is by……" — Jane Porter
"The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us."
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15 Quotes by Jane Porter
Jane Porter has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to…
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility…
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
— Edmund White
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot,…
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What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea?…
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I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor –…
— Bill Hicks
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This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate injustice against my people all over the world, and your support of them makes…
— Mohamed Khan
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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
— T.H. White
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world,…
— Gregory Maguire
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My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her…
— Janet Evanovich
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The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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