Augusta Jane Evans Quotes

• Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Years, Suffering, Doe

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• It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

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  Blood, Veins, Flow

  Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.438

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• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

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  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

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  Insanity, Form, Poetry Is

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• Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

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  Luxury, Tears, Relief

  Augusta Jane Evans (1864). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.296

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• Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

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  Memories, Men, Earth

  Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408

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• All things are dark to sorrow.

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  Dark, Sorrow, All Things

  Augusta Jane Evans (1872). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.256

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• Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

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  Money, People, Soul

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.27

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• Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

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  Shadow, Icy, Duty

  Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140

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• Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

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  Heart, Shadow, Icy

  Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140

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