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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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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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• He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

  Jane Porter

  Believe, Character, Rumor

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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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• Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

  Jane Porter

  Wisdom, Country, Drs

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.43

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• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.

  Jane Porter

  Art, Grief, Color

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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

  Jane Porter

  Sensual, Cups, Poison

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

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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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• 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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