Jane Porter Quotes

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• Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Happiness, Not Perfect

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 298, 1895.

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• Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

  Jane Porter

  Passionate, Daring, Shocking

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• 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 kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Happiness, Heart, Mirrors

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• The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

  Jane Porter

  Inspirational, Avenging, Injured

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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• A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

  Jane Porter

  Gratitude, Generous Spirit, Benefits

  Jane Porter (190?). “Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author”

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• Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Flames, Lamps

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.105

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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 to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

  Jane Porter

  Thinking, Self, Matter

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• The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

  Jane Porter

  Apples, Fruition, Sticks

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• It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

  Jane Porter

  Earth, Trouble, Smooth

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• Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Self, Mind

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

  Jane Porter

  Greatness, Judging, Criticism

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.26

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• In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

  Jane Porter

  Dream, War, Expectations

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• The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

  Jane Porter

  Temptation, Religion, May

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.21

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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.

  Jane Porter

  Believe, Thinking

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• That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

  Jane Porter

  Grief, Heart, Depth

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.141

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• 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.

  Jane Porter

  Greatness, Thinking, People

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.26

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• The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.

  Jane Porter

  Revenge, Men, Avenging

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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• A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.

  Jane Porter

  Revenge, Spring, Humility

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

  Jane Porter

  Summer, War, Book

  Jane Porter (1854). “The Scottish Chiefs, etc”, p.1

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

  Jane Porter

  Love, Yield, Compulsion

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

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  Law, Voice, May

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Hands, Voice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.114

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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• When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Tears, World

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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