Augusta Jane Evans quotes
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“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.”
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Augusta Jane Evans
“Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.”
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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140
“Poetry is the purest form of insanity.”
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Augusta Jane Evans
“Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.”
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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.27
“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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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272
“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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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.438
“Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!”
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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1864). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.296
“Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.”
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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408
“All things are dark to sorrow.”
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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1872). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.256
“Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!”
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Augusta Jane Evans
Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140
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