Ann Radcliffe Quotes

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

Ann Radcliffe

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• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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• Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

  

  Edmund White
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• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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• I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

  

  Fannie Hurst
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• My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

  

  Brian Tracy
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• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

  

  Eliphas Levi
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• All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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• Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

  

  Aristotle
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• The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

  

  Aristotle
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• Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

  

  Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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• I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.

  

  Adam Croasdell
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• It’s terrible, I have to say, I loved getting high, i mean, I loved it. It became my life… For a time, I didn’t want to stop. When I even thought about stopping, just for a while, I couldn’t. For a while, I just went in there to clean up and get my health back, with the idea of using again when I came out. Then… I had to go in just to get my family off my back, to get my loved ones, my wives, whatever, off my back… My family, everyone… just couldn’t bear to see it anymore.

  

  Chuck Negron Three Dog Night
  • Time
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• Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

  

  Gautama Buddha
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  • Temporary

• The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

  

  Ann Radcliffe
  • Unhappy
  • Passions
  • Govern