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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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• 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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• We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.

  Jane Porter

  Liars, Lying, Men

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

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• True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Men, Confusion

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.18

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• The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.

  Jane Porter

  Love, Sacrifice, Light

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

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• However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

  Jane Porter

  Rose, Mind, Body

  Jane Porter (1809). “Thaddeus of Warsaw ...”, p.70

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• When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

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  Sensual, Cups, Poison

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.110

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