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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.

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Inspirational, Avenging, Injured

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

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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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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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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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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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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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To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Jane Porter

Inspirational, Independent, Support

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Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Jane Porter

Spiritual, Guilt

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

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Mother, Beloved Wife, Careers

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Temptation, Religion, May

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Summer, War, Book

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

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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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Noses, Bears, Should

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National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Jane Porter

Prejudice, Illiterate, Antipathy

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.112

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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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Born: January 17, 1776
Died: May 24, 1850
Occupation: Novelist
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