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- A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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