"The mob is a sort of bear; while……" — Jane Porter
"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 slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you."
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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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More Bear Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
— Lord Acton
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
— Amy Adams
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
— Honore de Balzac
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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